Jorn Lindhard Mortensen's blog

Are there any plans for an international version of Office Accounting? Can the US version be customized by a third-party to accomodate local accounting and tax requirements?

I have a couple questions.

1) Do you have any suggestions on how to deliver standard reports (Using API's) to the clients machine when integrating a web application with Accounting 2008.

I would like to have them display using the asp.net report viewer controls but I want to reuse as much of the SDK infastructure as possible.

2) Any thoughts on handlig multiple locations?  Either some information on future Acc. Office releases or ideas on how to implement using current release.

Thanks in advance for any information!

Thanks for your reply.

1) I am trying to come up with a strategy to add OA reports to a web app.  In the same way I would bind an OA Price Level View to an asp.net grid view by using the objects exposed by the ILoader and SBI.

2)Multiple locations as in multiple warehouses.  This would have consolidated financial reporting and inter branch transfers.  I assume that this was not the vision for OA however I'm interested in the following:

A) Is this part of the OA road map?

B)If not, can you think of any clever(simple) ways to mimic this functionality with the current release.

By the way, OA is an awesome product.  Thanks for your guys work on this.

I have another question.  If I am providing a web based interface how would you suggest pitching out to the services offered by OA 2008 (Credit Card Processing, ADP, etc.).  Is there a url and some information I can send via query string that will bridge the gap between my webapp and those web based services?

Jorn,

Quick question for you, here we have upgraded our accounting from SBA 2006 to MOA 2008. There is this web app of ours, which use to access SBA 2006 for all sales order creation process, which is now trying to run same code against MOA 2008 API's

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FOR CODE (at the start of loop)->

Dim objISalesOrder As ISalesOrder

objISalesOrder = CType(SBALib.SBAServ.SalesOrders.GetByGuid(orderID), ISalesOrder)

Dim iv As ISalesOrderLineView = objISalesOrder.SalesOrderLines

For Each i As IItemLine In iv.ChildList

If orderRowGUID.Equals(i.LineItem.Guid) Or

orderRowCGUID.Equals(i.LineItem.Guid) Then

' Other programming Tasks in loop

End If

Next

I AM GETTING ERROR->

Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.BusinessSolutions.SmallBusinessAccounting.TaxLine' to type 'Microsoft.BusinessSolutions.SmallBusinessAccounting.IItemLine'.

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Any idea why SBA 2006 was able to do this casting for ISalesOrderLineView items and not MOA 2008 ?

Any help will be much appreciated...

Regards,

Atul