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Tim,
I think videos are easier and faster to absorb than simply written instructions. A video allows the viewer to listen and follow along on the screen clicks and navigation whereas a written only format forces the reader to read the material, attempt to reproduce the steps while ultimately having to review the material in order to successfully complete the process. A ten-minute video know becomes a twenty-minute exercise. I'm afraid you might lose a lot of readers.
So far these videos, in my humble opinion, are far superior to the training documentation provided by Acumatica.
I would hate to see you give up on this format. I am certain as you get the hang of it you will become more efficient at creating these high-quality videos.
Even though I have a long background and history with Acumatica I was reminded of a few simple things I'd forgotten.
I'm enjoying the early lessons and look forward to those with more meat on them.
I think the early lessons are excellent for new users of Acumatica and it will benefit those new users to take the course.
I am a SQL guy but I don't understand why the SQL lessons were in the training lessons.
I don't see a lot of value added from the sessions on SQL and they interrupted the good flow I was getting from lesson after lesson.
And pasting SQL Query Results into Excel didn't trip my trigger either.
I don't know of how knowledge of a SQL query could benefit a user of generic inquiries.
I just finished watching Adding Generic Inquiry Relations and was very confused as you went through the course. First you added a table and then a result and then you deleted the result and deleted a table and then you selected a table and added a relation and then went back and forth over different options about how to do that. It all ended up for me to be a confusing lesson and I had to re-do the lesson three times and skip all the start/stop/change/add/ stuff in the middle in order to get the query to work.
Plus I'd like you to slow the pace a bit as I'm trying to duplicate what you are saying in a generic inquiry I am creating on my screen and you just go too fast. So I have to stop the recording, back up, and replay over and over. A slightly slower pace would let me keep up and I'd feel better about not having the stop and go efforts.
Hi Tim: I just completed the course for all lessons except the last Tips and Tricks. The details in ALL of the lessons added greatly to my knowledge. i am grateful to you for creating such a hands-on course for Generic Inquiries because there is no other way to learn this skill in such a granule mode. The lessons were just right in length. I'd prefer for future lessons that they be a bit longer with a slower show-and-tell effort so I could follow along with the example in my own database. I am encouraging my team members to go through the lessons as well.
In future episodes it would be nice to see examples of other data sources than Bills & Adjustments.
Kind regards, and congratulations on a successful launch of your course. I look forward to others.
Mike
Thoroughly enjoying this course AND I'm learning some new and helpful things along the way, i.e., setting how I want Acumatica data to be displayed in Excel, fonts, headers and so on.
I thoroughly enjoyed the videos on pivot tables AND the quiz. Already began practicing pivot tables and am solidifying the information you provided.
Having only completed only the first part so far, I would say that your course should be mandatory for everyone new to Acumatica and a great investment for all employers who have new hires. Having spent a few weeks learning using AOU and youtube, I would say that when I watched your videos it all cemented together.
I'm 6 weeks into learning Acumatica (my 3rd ERP system) and appreciated the additional tips on formatting PT's. I'm quite surprised that fields and GI's don't have the ability to show % or $ in column headers / field names; but thankful for your formatting tips on PT's that gives us a workaround for now. If you ever hear of a currency data type for at least a GI being implemented, can you let me know? I'm following a community topic, but no updates have been posted.
Thank you everyone for all of your feedback on this Discussion Topic. I've closed it for comments because I figured out how to enable the comments section on the bottom of the lessons in the course. You can now leave your comments on the lesson pages in the comments section.