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You may have noticed that things have been quiet for a while on this blog, well here is why: Microsoft Office Accounting will no longer be distributed after November 16, 2009. As a consequence I have moved on to new challenges within Microsoft, now focusing
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Well it is time for a new version of the us version of Microsoft Office Accounting. Part of the big news this year is that existing Professional users can upgrade for free! Check out this site for more detail . Naturally users of the Express version can
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A few people have had this problem now: They create a report add-in for Office Accounting but when they deploy to the end users the reports does not show up in the menu. One of those ”but it works for me!!” problems… A typical reason can be that you forgot
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I just got this question: “The problem is that I am creating a new custom report using the INativeReportV2 interface. I am trying to apply Aging Options Filter to the report. The problem is, how I do capture those values in the CreateDesign method? The
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I was asked how you can access the data in an Office Accounting report in code. As the code shows below this is very simple – you just have to remember a few things: · There is no guarantee that the columns in the data view won’t change between versions
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I just wanted to let you know that my friend John Thuneby has started a new blog about Office Accounting . My guess is that he will write more about the functionality in the application and less about the technical stuff. I know that John welcomes feedback
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I just saw this article on how to set up Office Accounting for multiple users. As I know this is a topic that people has a lot of questions about I thought I would post a link to it... At the same time you can find a lot of usefull information in the
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It has been a while since my last post and I have gotten a few questions. One question was related to exporting reports to Excel. This is actually pretty simple; you may have noticed the IReportExportToExcelV2 interface. This is the key to this task.
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Time for some exciting news on brand new Office Accounting versions!! Today we are releasing the new Office Accounting 2008. Among the great news we are now releasing new versions; besides the new US version we have now added a new US-Spanish version
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The question about the ReportColumnType came up in a comment for a prior post, and yeah I guess it’s fair that I tell you about it :o) First a brief description of the values, from the quick overview you can see that you really do not have that many ColumnTypes
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What if I have created a INativeReport and I want to filter it, but the build in filters are not exactly what I need? Well you can create your own filters! It does require some coding though (but we like code, right?). As an example let’s add a “Region”
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[ Serializable ] class RegionFilter : IReportFilterGenericV2 , ISerializable { private int censusRegion; private string state; private bool visible = true ; private string [] censusRegionNames = { "All" , "Northeast" , " New England " , " Middle Atlantic
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Ok - it’s been way too long since my last post, and I now feel forced to cover a topic that several people has asked me: “native reports are great and all, but can I add a total to my report”. The good news is the answer is yes, the bad news is it requires
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I was asked If you need a new Report add-in for each report you want to add. I think it is a good question and one of the things you do not get for free in you generate your reports using the templates (there I had a chance to mention it again) The answer
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I know I'm a little late with this announcement, but for those who haven't seen it we now have a service pack ready for download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F5A69C78-39A0-4B10-9072-456031457EB5&displaylang=en If you
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