Just ran into a new one in Vantage 4.0 that I hadn't heard about. The
Country field on vendors, customers, etc is now coded from a Country
table, instead of being free-form text. Apparently this came with
the 3.2 "international" version?
This is a nice change (wish they'd do it for states too.) But - one of the
conversion routines loads up the new Country table with every single
country it can find in the old text field. Including obscure places like
AP check addresses.
Here's the annoying part... Early on in our Vantage implementation, we had
users putting all kinds of junk in the country field, like US, U.S.A., USA
and even "Attn: Joe Smith" We cleaned it out of the master files, but it's
permanently stuck in things like the AP Checks. And now, permanently
stuck in County as well. Arrgh! Would have been nice to have the option
to skip the junk, instead of proliferating it more. Guess I just need to
finally figure out ProVision or some way to blank out the old junk.
-Wayne Cox
Country field on vendors, customers, etc is now coded from a Country
table, instead of being free-form text. Apparently this came with
the 3.2 "international" version?
This is a nice change (wish they'd do it for states too.) But - one of the
conversion routines loads up the new Country table with every single
country it can find in the old text field. Including obscure places like
AP check addresses.
Here's the annoying part... Early on in our Vantage implementation, we had
users putting all kinds of junk in the country field, like US, U.S.A., USA
and even "Attn: Joe Smith" We cleaned it out of the master files, but it's
permanently stuck in things like the AP Checks. And now, permanently
stuck in County as well. Arrgh! Would have been nice to have the option
to skip the junk, instead of proliferating it more. Guess I just need to
finally figure out ProVision or some way to blank out the old junk.
-Wayne Cox