This message appears when you don’t have a data source with the name of “Acctivate” in Acctivate database maintenance. Acctivate allows for multiple data sources to be configured in database maintenance (or the acct.ini) but at least one of these…
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How to attach files using notes in Acctivate
Users may upload and attach files to a record in Acctivate, using notes. Users may create notes and upload attachments on the following windows. Activity Customer Account Customer Credit Customer Location Sales Order Sales Invoice Purchase Order Purchase Invoice Product…
Enabling TLS to resolve “Unable to login to database server”
TLS 1.0 is a protocol used to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating computer applications. The following “Unable to login to database server” message could occur if TLS 1.0 is disabled. In order to check to see if…
Posted in Database
Delete Warehouse from a Product
Occasionally, you may want to remove a warehouse on a product. This does not remove any historical transactions, or delete the warehouse from the database. Removing the warehouse from a product hides the warehouse only for the product you are…
Product Class: Product Class is ambiguous
As your business grows and you have the need for more and more product classes, the list can grow to a point that you may have accidentally created a duplicate Product Class. The database must have a unique identifier to…
Deleting Customers from Acctivate
You have old, inactive or duplicate customer records, now you want to delete them. Acctivate does not allow users to delete customers once a record has been created. While it may sound like a simple click of the mouse or…
Migrating data from one Acctivate company file to another company file
For some users with multiple Acctivate Companies, there may come a time when you would like to migrate the data in one of the companies into the other. This can be due to a merger or a variety of other…
Stop Excel from Changing Numbers to Dates or Scientific Notations
We all know that Excel can be a powerful tool, however in an effort to anticipate the need of a user, Excel can also make it difficult to create spreadsheets for importing data into Acctivate. You may have entered a…
Posted in Database, Import Data
Acctivate Database Backup Prompt
In newer versions of Acctivate, there is a prompt upon exiting the application to create a backup if a SQL backup has not been run in the last 7 days. This prompt will show for all users until the backup…
Posted in Database, Technology
