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New Management Reports

03/16/2012 – 11:52 am | Comments Off

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 …

Report Designer: the value of parameters

11/24/2009 – 9:15 am | Comments Off

One of the most powerful attributes of the D-Tools report designer is the ability to use parameters in your reports. These parameters give you …

Component IDs

08/26/2009 – 10:34 am | Comments Off

A Component ID is the unique identifier that is assigned to every product that you add to an SI5.5 project.  Component IDs display on most …

Changing the Graphics on a Proposal

06/10/2009 – 6:53 am | Comments Off
Changing the Graphics on a Proposal

This post will show how to change the graphics on an SI5.5 Proposal, with youtube video.

Cannot Create a Project Delta

06/09/2009 – 5:37 am | Comments Off

This shows how to remove “illegal” characters from your revisions so that a Project Delta can be generated.

Creating a Proposal Without Descriptions

05/29/2009 – 7:53 am | Comments Off

This post shows how to create a Proposal in SI5.5 that has no descriptions for any of the products, with youtube video.

Backing up custom reports

03/11/2009 – 12:15 pm | Comments Off

This document discusses how to back up and restore custom reports. The process is slightly different depending on whether you are using SI5, or SI5.5.

Showing dimensions in metric units on custom reports

12/22/2008 – 7:36 pm | Comments Off

Overview
Due to a bug in SI5, product dimensions (height, width, depth) always appear in imperial/US units on reports. This posting discusses how to modify a …

Global Settings for Reports

10/08/2008 – 12:47 pm | Comments Off

One of the features released with SI 5.2 was Global Settings for reports.  These settings give you added flexibility on how your data displays.  To …