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Live 3: Geek out on Generic Inquiries – GI Joe!

March 4, 2021 by Tim Rodman

AUGForums.com Live is a bi-weekly broadcast run by Ryan Brown, CEO at xByte, an Acumatica Customer. Come ask questions during the broadcast!

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0:00 AUGForums.com Live Introduction #Acumatica
5:47 Generic Inquiry Overview
8:50 The Generic Inquiry Foundation
11:25 Email Shortcut for Business Events
14:27 Show All Contact Toggle Trick
18:11 Acumatica 2021 R1 Linking Tracking Number to FedEx
21:00 Link to Amazon for Matching a Price in a Side Panel
25:21 eCommerce Sync Status Side Panel
27:15 Audit History as Side Panel and Structuring a Report for a Side Panel
41:30 Plug for Velixo Reports
43:00 Exporting to Excel vs. OData (including Power BI and CONCATENATEX)
51:49 Monthly Sales History in a Generic Inquiry
53:57 Getting the “Last” Record
56:43 The Wyatt.ERP Technique
1:00:06 Final Thoughts

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Chat Transcript

AUGForums dot com​
Where is everyone physically located today?

Steven Hirsch​
sunny and warm NJ

Toon Six
​NJ

Wendi Taylor
​Wendi Taylor – Atlanta GA

DataQuest Solutions
​Where did the Salesperson Desc value come from? BIz Acct record?

Classic Automation LLC
​I added another table to the standard Invoice GI. Needed the State of LOC of invoice. I found the correct table & correct field, Added it to the results grid. But it didn’t pull the state data.

AUGForums dot com
​Hey Classic Automation LLC, do you have a forum discussion about that issue that we could link to?

Classic Automation LLC
​No. Should I create one?

DataQuest Solutions​
Curious to hear how people have increased your comfort with BUILDING inquiries over time, especially since navigating the DACs can be hard to understand/lightly documented.

DataQuest Solutions
​Agree, would be good to see @Classic Automation LLC on the Community site

Classic Automation LLC
​I think I need to understand left and inner joins.

Toon Six​
Which VOIP system are you using?

AUGForums dot com
​@Classic Automation LLC – Since JOINs are a SQL thing and not an Acumatica thing, you can checkout a SQL tutorial like this one: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_joi…

Kyle Timbers
​That google doc shows that?

Kyle Timbers
​It shows tracking #s as a side panel

AUGForums dot com
​@Toon Six

AUGForums dot com​
We’re using StreamYard.com for the broadcast

Toon Six
​Ryan, you are a genius!

cricket golfer
​will this be available for viewing later ?

Toon Six
​No way can you this in Sage without programmng.

AUGForums dot com​http://augforums.com/sagesucks

Toon Six
​Great I will use this video for selling Acumatica.

cricket golfer​🙂 thanks

Toon Six
​Yes, BIgCommerce experience very needed

Classic Automation LLC
​But dont’ performance and storage take a hit if you have field level audit on system wide when you have lots of users?

DataQuest Solutions
​Thanks for asking this Tim. How would Saas cope?

Cloud ERP 2020 – InfoSourcing
​Do a process screen in Aumatica for doing such high volume tasks

Neil C
​We do something similar for audit history. Old records are exported to a CSV then deleted after a year. Probably 80% of the space usage was just SOLine audit data

Christiaan Raubenheimer​
Could you share the details of this company that came in with the performance tuning?

DataQuest Solutions
​Can indexing also work for Saas? Assuming not?

Leslie Alt
​I have had Acumatica delete my audit history data before (Saas customer). Just gave them a date range and which table.

Toon Six
​Which DELL server runs your Acumatica ERP instance?

DataQuest Solutions
​Thanks @Leslie Alt

Leslie Alt
Wow.

Toon Six
​Ryan, could you explain again your first case for displaying the customer contact record when a phone call comes in. Sorry.

Dianne Aguilera
​My experience says the same, Tim – people asking for a report means a spreadsheet.

Neil C
​90% of the time they just export to excel or end up using the GI version of the same report

Toon Six​
Yes, Tim. People want to take control of their stuff.

Christiaan Raubenheimer​
Do you have any work arounds for Mac Excel users for pulling in Odata in?

Christiaan Raubenheimer
​The velixio news is EXCELLENT, since it currently doesn’t support Mac’s either. Thanks for the responses guys.

Toon Six​
itemQty 6 months is what?

AUGForums dot com​
@Dianne Aguilera – Thanks for the confirmation!

Leslie Alt
​It’s OK Tim, you’re louder than the saw!

Toon Six
​Thank you. This was really good.

Toon Six
​TIm, why was this posted to only AUGForum members in linkedin?

Toon Six
​This is unique to AUGFOrums live.

Judy Thompson​
Thanks!

Matt Brown
​Thanks both.

Toon Six
​PLease a discussion forum

Toon Six
​No more sound

russ williams
​i can hear you

Toon Six
​Sound is bac

Dianne Aguilera
​I have sound

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