Digest Number 965

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Is this referring to some new type of computer virus? If so, man, they are
getting nasty!

-----Original Message-----
From: steve_polatas@... [mailto:steve_polatas@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 1:22 PM
To: vantage@egroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Digest Number 965


Thanks for the update, Steve. Hope the rash goes away soon...

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>
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> "Unlimited and Affordable Opportunities in Stone"
> 2203 1st Avenue South
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They straightened everything out and you don't even need the medical card. Show up at 10:45 am or after and they will give you both the painkiller and the antibiotic.


> ** Original Subject: RE: [Vantage] Digest Number 965
> ** Original Sender: vantage@egroups.com
> ** Original Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:26:35 -0700

> ** Original Message follows...

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> There are 14 messages in this issue.
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> Topics in this digest:
>
> 1. Progress docs
> From: Wayne Cox <wmc@...>
> 2. RE: Repost
> From: "Charles Metcalf" <cmetcalf@...>
> 3. RE: Off Topic Data Collection Survey
> From: "John Sage" <jsage@...>
> 4. New file uploaded to vantage
> From: <vantage@egroups.com>
> 5. RE Receiving inspection Repost
> From: "Sherer, Rhonda" <rhonda@...>
> 6. RE: Off Topic Data Collection Survey
> From: Todd Caughey <caugheyt@...>
> 7. ACCOUNT PAYABLE CLEARING PROBLEMS
> From: JEFFTKELLY@...
> 8. RE: ACCOUNT PAYABLE CLEARING PROBLEMS
> From: Dave Halford <dave@...>
> 9. Re: Data Collection Stations.
> From: "Mark Charamut" <mrprogress@...>
> 10. RE: Master Methods Listing/Report Builder
> From: Steve Wirtz <SWirtz@...>
> 11. RE: Monitering Late Materials
> From: "Lepley, Scott A." <sal@...>
> 12. RE: Off Topic Data Collection Survey
> From: "Keith Taylor" <keith@...>
> 13. RE: Reports
> From: Steve Wirtz <SWirtz@...>
> 14. Re: Merant ODBC and Crystal Reports
> From: "Troy Funte" <tfunte@...>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:59:53 -0400
> From: Wayne Cox <wmc@...>
> Subject: Progress docs
>
> Maybe this is old news, but...
>
> Progress Software now has its documentation (for rev 9.1) in PDF, instead
> of that miserable "Dynatext" and it's free for download:
>
> http://www.progress.com/v9/documentation/start.htm
>
> -Wayne
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:15:04 -0500
> From: "Charles Metcalf" <cmetcalf@...>
> Subject: RE: Repost
>
> No Conversions. Just 1 each.
> Chuck
>
>
>
> Just a thought, is there any conversion involved? Are you buying by the
> pound and receiving by the piece?
>
>
>
> I have not received any feedback on this question. Is there any help?
>
> We are having a slight problem with incoming inspection. We receive
> one part from a purchase order into inspection. The inspector than
> inspects the part and it passes. We then go into inspection
> processing, po receipts to process the part to inventory. We get an
> error message that "the quantity of passed and quantity failed must
> equal the received quantity". They do match, but we cannot get past
> this point. This is sorta random. Any Help Available.
> Thanks
> Chuck
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:18:34 -0700
> From: "John Sage" <jsage@...>
> Subject: RE: Off Topic Data Collection Survey
>
> Eric,
>
> We have approx 20 employees per terminal per shift. 5 DC units
> total. No waiting except in except at shift start/end, but we've
> staggered employee start times to alleviate.
>
>
> have fun,
> John
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Tolliver [mailto:e.tolliver@...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 10:06 AM
> > To: Vantage@Egroups. Com
> > Subject: [Vantage] Off Topic Data Collection Survey
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 4
> Date: 4 Oct 2000 18:22:22 -0000
> From: <vantage@egroups.com>
> Subject: New file uploaded to vantage
>
>
> Hello,
>
> This email message is a notification to let you know that
> a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the vantage
> group.
>
> File : /LaborExceptions.PRL
> Uploaded by : martinn@...
> Description : Labour Exception report for the previous day. You will need to modify the exception codes to matches your shifts. Sorted by suppervisor ID.
>
> You can access this file at the URL
>
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> Regards,
>
> martinn@...
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:21:46 -0500
> From: "Sherer, Rhonda" <rhonda@...>
> Subject: RE Receiving inspection Repost
>
> Sorry, but we haven't had any problems like that. Don't know what
> to tell you.
>
> Rhonda S. Sherer, Purchasing Agent
> Reeder & Kline Machine Co., Inc
>
> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:01:09 -0000
> From: "Charles Metcalf" <cmetcalf@...>
> Subject: Repost
>
> I have not received any feedback on this question. Is there any help?
>
> We are having a slight problem with incoming inspection. We receive
> one part from a purchase order into inspection. The inspector than
> inspects the part and it passes. We then go into inspection
> processing, po receipts to process the part to inventory. We get an
> error message that "the quantity of passed and quantity failed must
> equal the received quantity". They do match, but we cannot get past
> this point. This is sorta random. Any Help Available.
> Thanks
> Chuck
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:53:53 -0500
> From: Todd Caughey <caugheyt@...>
> Subject: RE: Off Topic Data Collection Survey
>
> 10 PCs on floor for max 75 employees on a shift.
> But 4 of these (like shipping) also allow other functions in addition to DC..
> Our criteria was not # employees but distance from work station so physical
> plant layout and size detemrined DC #.
> -Todd C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Tolliver [mailto:e.tolliver@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 12:06 PM
> To: Vantage@Egroups. Com
> Subject: [Vantage] Off Topic Data Collection Survey
>
>
> I'm trying to provide some info for our management and that is How many Data
> Collection terminal per number of employee's using the terminals.
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Eric Tolliver
> IT\MIS
> Continental Industries Inc.
> 5456 E. Mcdowell Rd.
> Mesa, Az 85215
> http://ciirelays.com/
> mailto:e.tolliver@...
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>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:13:47 EDT
> From: JEFFTKELLY@...
> Subject: ACCOUNT PAYABLE CLEARING PROBLEMS
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We are running Vantage 4.00.814. We finished closing out our month last
> Monday and can not tie out our Accounts Payable Clearing account in the G/L
> to the "Receipts not Invoice" Report. We have 20K more on the report than we
> have in the G/L account. I checked the detail posting in our G/L account and
> see only "Periodic Postings" from daily receipts and Invoice entries when
> matching with receipts. No manual G/L entries to this account. Has anyone
> run into this problem or have any ideas where I should start to look?
>
> Thanks, Jeff Kelly
> Youngberg Industries, Inc.
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 15:33:31 -0400
> From: Dave Halford <dave@...>Subject: RE: ACCOUNT PAYABLE CLEARING PROBLEMS
>
> Try looking in the inventory/wip reconciliation report, check the include o=
> ffsetting accounts and use both posted and unposted transactions.=20
>
> -----Original Message-----From: JEFFTKELLY@... [SMTP:JEFFTKELLY@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:14 PM
> To: vantage@egroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] ACCOUNT PAYABLE CLEARING PROBLEMS
>
> << File: ATT00144.htm >>=20
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:35:09 -0700
> From: "Mark Charamut" <mrprogress@...>
> Subject: Re: Data Collection Stations.
>
> Gary,
> We have a way to stop multiple instances of vantage from being started
> on a user's pc. We have finally overcome the last hurdle which was the
> options to start vantage with a data collection user or a menu option. We
> are working on the installation media right now and I expect to make the
> utility available by the end of next week.
> The utility consists of a new caesarsplash.exe which will start vantage=
> ..
> The new executable will detect if Vantage is already running and will not
> start a new session.
> If you have any questions please call or email.
> Thanks,
> Mark Charamut
>
> Managing Member
> Caesar Development Services, LLC
> mcharamut@...
> (860) 225-0369
>
> ----- Original Message -----From: "Buck, Gary" <gary.buck@...>
> To: <vantage@egroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 2:54 PM
> Subject: [Vantage] Data Collection Stations.
>
>
> > Has anyone seen where you can stop multiple occurrances of job tracker
> > and data collection funtions from being run. What is happening is that
> > some users are minimizing the programs to get to the main vantage
> > shortcuts and starting another session of data collection or tracker. I
> > have the timeout utility running and they can't start another session of
> > vantage, that works very well. I've even put up 8 1/2 x 11 laminated
> > instructions for Alt-tab and Ctrl-esc to check if another job tracker is
> > already running. Just today I found 5 dc & 4 job trackers on the
> > taskbar. thanks for any help. glb.
> >
> > Gary Buck
> > IS Network/Systems Administrator
> > Tech Mold, Inc.
> > gary.buck@...
> >
> >
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> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:02:43 -0400=20
> From: Steve Wirtz <SWirtz@...>
> Subject: RE: Master Methods Listing/Report Builder
>
> We have 3.0 and do not have the ABOM, but I believe we solved the
> problem you are having in what we call our Job Structure Report which
> shows all assemblies, operations and materials (linked to the
> operation), for any job, one at a time. Using a quantity of one, we use
> the report to verify our job structure, quantity per parent, etc. This
> way we can look at the entire job instead of just a piece of it on the
> vantage job entry screen. We also have two simple job material summary
> reports, one is by the assembly and the other is by material part
> number, both total the material requirements.=20=20
>
> I will ask our report writer to upload these three reports along with
> our Shortage Report this Friday.
>
> Steve
>
> Ps Sorry about the delay in uploading our shortage report as I have
> been out since last Wednesday and our report writer will not be in until
> Friday.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: abelagardi@...
> [SMTP:abelagardi@...]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 12:57 PM
> To: vantage@egroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Master Methods Listing/Report Builder
>
> Has anyone tried to re-build the Master Methods Listing using
> Report=20
> Builder? I am in the process of doing that. I'm almost done but
> I=20
> have a little problem when we use more than one part material to
>
> build the final product. In other words, if our final product is
> made=20
> of one single part material, my report works pretty good. I get
> the=20
> part material specifications and then all the operations
> sequences=20
> the part needs to go through. But, when the final product
> requires=20
> more than one material, let's say 10 different parts, I cannot
> get=20
> those 10 different parts list together at the beginning of my
> report.=20
> Instead, I get an endless report of 10 times each operation
> sequence=20
> under each material part.=20
>
> If someone tried to do this before:
>
> 1. Can I get your version of the report so I can add the the
> extra=20
> info we need in it? Or ...
> 2. Can you give me a hint on why this is happening and how to
> try to=20
> solve it?
>
> Thank you in advance! Angela.
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:34:54 -0400=20
> From: "Lepley, Scott A." <sal@...>
> Subject: RE: Monitering Late Materials
>
> Steve,
> =20
> It appears that you created a new "Shortage Report" folder at
> www.egroups.com/files/vantage <http://www.egroups.com/files/vantage> , but
> the folder contains no files. Is the empty folder there because you create=
> d
> it in anticipation of uploading the report when the improvements were
> finished or because you attempted to upload the report and the upload simpl=
> y
> did not work?
> =20
> Scott
> =20
> -----Original Message-----From: Steve Wirtz [mailto:SWirtz@...]
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 11:01 AM
> To: 'vantage@egroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Monitering Late Materials
> =20
> Chuck and All,
>
> I will post the Shortage Report next week. We have a contract person
> that comes in once every two weeks to create our Vantage special
> reports. We are making improvements to the report which I will post.
> I'll be happy to answer any questions about the report. I'll also post
> a similar Job Structure report that may be handy for everyone. We use
> the Job Structure report to check our project engineers, their
> goes-in-to and quantity per parent, etc.
>
> Steve=20
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:16:05 -0400
> From: "Keith Taylor" <keith@...>
> Subject: RE: Off Topic Data Collection Survey
>
> My experience is this has a lot to do with the size of the facility,
> department or work areas and how far an employee has to walk as well as how
> many jobs they may work on in a given day. For example, there are cases
> where in most cases one employee works on only one or two jobs per day then
> in that case they can walk a little further, etc.
>
> Keith E. Taylor
> Vice President
> LBSi
> Business Systems Consultants (Progress based ERP packages)
> 216/476-1416 ext 26
> keith@...
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
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> Message: 13
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:12:04 -0400=20
> From: Steve Wirtz <SWirtz@...>
> Subject: RE: Reports
>
> We put in two data collection operations on the "0" Assembly level of
> the job traveler. The first operation is "Job Release" which in effect
> is the start date. The office clerk issues the job to the floor as the
> start and then signs off the data collection. Our last operation is
> like Lydia's company where our Pack-out manager then completes the data
> entry for "Job Completion:.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lydia Coffman [SMTP:lcoffman@...]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:04 PM
> To: vantage@egroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] Reports
>
> Venky:
>
> Currently, Vantage doesn't store the "start date" of the job.
> You could use
> one of your user field date fields for that purpose, though.=20
>
> If the final operation of a job is marked as the "final
> operation", then
> completed in data collection, the job will appear on the
> "candidates for
> closure" list.
>
> Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
>
> Lydia
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: venky@...
> [mailto:venky@...]=20
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 9:56 AM
> To: vantage@egroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Reports
>
> Does anybody have a report, like a job status report that also
> has=20
> the start date of the job.=20
>
> Also does anybody have a something like a shipping report, which
> only=20
> list jobs that have 100% of the operations complete.=20
>
> If so could you forward it to me please.
>
> Thank you for your help in advance.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 14
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 22:19:19 -0400
> From: "Troy Funte" <tfunte@...>
> Subject: Re: Merant ODBC and Crystal Reports
>
> We also have the security button unchecked in the ODBC configuration, but
> get the Progress login the first time you open a report, but not thereafter=
> ..
> In Crystal 8, using the Web Server component (which will take a bit of
> simple HTML coding), you can set up each report in a web page -- and the
> user simply clicks on one of the links. You can have the password and
> username embedded in the link so they don't need to enter it manually. Tha=
> t
> might work if you use Crystal 8's Web Server Component. I've just been
> experimenting with it as an alternative to compiling reports.
>
> Troy Funte
> Liberty Electronics
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----From: "H. Dale Puls" <DPuls@...>
> To: <vantage@egroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 5:47 PM
> Subject: [Vantage] Merant ODBC and Crystal Reports
>
>
> > Hopefully a simple question. Is there a way to bypass the Progress login
> > when I fire up a Crystal report that attaches directly to the Vantage
> > tables? We have the company's founder (84 years old and still very much
> > going) who wants a SIMPLE way to run reports from his PC (yes he does use
> > one). He does not log into Vantage (too much screen activity to log on)
> so
> > I have contemplated using a Crystal compiled report to run from a shortcu=
> t
> > on his screen. Now I have the problem of getting past the Progress login
> > screen (there is no Progress password on my
> > Vantage database).
> >
> > Any Ideas?
> >
> > H. Dale Puls
> > Pacesetter Electronics
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
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>
>


>** --------- End Original Message ----------- **

>

Steve Beren
Assistant Project Manager
Impex Development L.L.C.
"Unlimited and Affordable Opportunities in Stone"
2203 1st Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
Tel: (206) 467-1972
Fax: (206) 467-1896
email: steve@...

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Thanks for the update, Steve. Hope the rash goes away soon...

Just another example of the importance of proofing your messages
before you hit the send button. Remember, the reputation you save
could be your own!

--- In vantage@egroups.com, steve@i... wrote:
> They straightened everything out and you don't even need the
medical card. Show up at 10:45 am or after and they will give you
both the painkiller and the antibiotic.
>
>
> Steve Beren
> Assistant Project Manager
> Impex Development L.L.C.
> "Unlimited and Affordable Opportunities in Stone"
> 2203 1st Avenue South
> Seattle, WA 98134
> Tel: (206) 467-1972
> Fax: (206) 467-1896
> email: steve@i...