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Forecaster.ini...or maybe outie? http://dynamicsgpland.blogspot.com/2010/05/forecasterinior-maybe-outie.html
With a 4 month old in the house, I can't resist a belly button joke :) I wanted to take a moment to share a little shortcut concerning managing Forecaster 7.0 applications. The installation of the Forecaster 7.0 client is a pretty simple affair, a few clicks of NextNextNext and you are done. Then you can apply the service pack and be ready to go fairly quickly.
And let's assume that you want to connect to existing Forecaster databases. So you launch the Forecaster client from StartAll Programs. But…
Posted by Christina Phillips
Forecaster Users and Dynamics GP Users http://dynamicsgpland.blogspot.com/2009/08/forecaster-users-and-dynamics-gp-users.html
Do you ever have an issue come up, and you know you read about it somewhere...but you just can't find the KB article or the blog lnk. But it still keeps eating at you?
That happened…
Posted by Christina Phillips
Nifty Nifty Forecaster Input Options http://dynamicsgpland.blogspot.com/2008/12/nifty-nifty-forecaster-input-options.html
This week finds me in Denver for some client trainings and our annual year end event on Friday.
So, just a quick little post on a feature of Forecaster that I think is pretty nifty. It is the ability to input by all segments. Let's say that your Forecaster installation has the following segments: DEPT (3 characters) and MAIN (4 characters). DEPT is the assignable segment and MAIN is the reversable segment.
In a "typical" input, the user…
Posted by Christina Phillips
Forecaster Report does not show the correct data http://www.jivtesh.com/2010/07/forecaster-report-does-not-show-correct.html
One of the first things I do when somebody says that their report is not showing the correct data is to run the Restate Process. That solves 99% of the problems.
The Restate process re-summarizes all accounts in the Rollup hierarchy to reflect your reorganizations. (With the Rollups feature in Forecaster, reorganizing your company's chart of accounts is easy. Rollups are parent-child…
Posted by Jivtesh Singh
Application Connections in Forecaster 7.0 or Where is Forecaster.ini? http://greatplainsguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/application-connections-in-forecaster.html
Here's some quick information on how Forecaster stores application connections.
I'm running Forecaster 7.0 under Citrix and we ran into an issue where any new application connections that we're being created weren't being saved. It turns out that these connections are stored…
FRx Forecaster Import is Easy http://www.rosebizinc.com/gpblog/2009/05/frx-forecaster-import-is-easy.html
In presenting demos of FRx Forecaster over the past years, I have always avoided using the import tools to get data into Forecaster. However for the demo I presented last week I wanted to import actual data from Dynamics GP and comma delimted data from MS Project, so I could show our prospect how Forecaster could be used to compre actual and plan data for a project oriented developer.
As…
FRx Forecaster 7 , Roaming Profiles and Amazing Disappearing Database connections http://intouchdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2009/10/frx-forecaster-7-roaming-profiles-and.html
This is a strange one and is not documented anywhere , in fact when we talked to Microsoft about this they had only seen it once before , so we thought it deserving of a blog post as this may save someone else a lot of time and effort.
This issue happens when you have Forecaster 7 installed in an environment using roaming profiles , in the case of our client they were also on terminal services but the same could be said for citrix.
The problem is, if you create connections to forecaster databases on a…
Posted by Touchstone Group Plc
ExpressLink versus DirectLink for Microsoft Forecaster http://www.jivtesh.com/2010/06/expresslink-versus-directlink-for.html
Christina Phillips at Dynamics GP Land had a great post up showing the architecture and relationships between Forecaster, Dynamics GP and FRx.
This is something I have seen a lot of people get confused about as well.
DirectLink is used in FRx to pull data from Forecaster and GL.
- You need this if you are doing your reporting in FRx Reporter and need Budget in your reports.
- Directlink has to…
Posted by Jivtesh Singh
Forecaster Database Creation Wizard Failure :( http://dynamicsgpland.blogspot.com/2010/03/forecaster-database-creation-wizard.html
Creating a new database in Forecaster is generally a straightforward affair. Launch the Forecaster Database Creation Wizard, connect to the desired SQL Server, enter the information for the new database, and there you have it. Or, sometimes, you don't. Last week I ran in to an issue where the wizard would "quit…
Posted by Christina Phillips
Forecaster Sections and Accounts http://dynamicsgpland.blogspot.com/2009/02/forecaster-sections-and-accounts.html
In Forecaster, you can design Lines (also referred to as Line Sets) to represent the accounts that should be displayed in an input set or in on a report. These lines can then be assigned to cost centers for input sets, so when a particular department (e.g., Accounting) accesses their input set to enter or review their budget, only the accounts applicable to the selected department are displayed. This concept of assigning lines to specific cost centers is referred to as an "override" on the input set.
The applicable paths we have…
Posted by Christina Phillips
Forecaster Users http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2009/08/forecaster-users.html
In a new post, Christina Phillips takes a look at issues when trying to use the same user…
Forecaster Blogging http://msdynamicsgp.blogspot.com/2008/12/forecaster-blogging.html
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