Articles tagged with: custom
New Management Reports
The Misc. Parts fields in SI5 are treated a bit differently than other fields. One difference is that Misc Parts are not taxable. The value for Misc Parts is added (or subtracted if negative) from …
Creating a Combined Report
This post will show how to create a combined report in SI5. While you can create Groups for reports that will generate all reports in the Group at once, they are still separate reports that …
Additional Wire Phase Functionality Shape
I have some great Wire features to announce that build on our previous blog post “Additional New Wire Shape” by Steve Collard. In the previous post Steve announced some new wire shape features. The benefits …
Modifying the Project Summary
Changing the information displayed in the Project Summary section of a stock D-Tools SI5 Proposal report can be confusing for some clients. This is mainly due to the fact that we use subreports to generate …
Creating Half-Rack Width Shapes
It is fairly easy to create customized Visio shapes based on the SI5 library of shapes that will represent products whose width is half-rack, or 9.5 inches, that snap-to the rack shapes. By default, …
Invocation Error When Running Custom Reports
Issue: You create a custom report off of an existing report for a Work Order, Task, etc… and when you attempt to run the report you get hit with the following error:
Exception has been thrown …

