In Sage ERP 2018, is there any way to stop the Notes windows from automatically popping up when I enter an item number, etc, short of removing the feature? (i.e is there a registry or ini entry to modify its behaviour)
Replace it with the far superior Orchid Notes, which works the way a pop-up notes program should.
Has there been any changes to the Notes functionality? Is there a way to disable auto popup both in the desktop + web-screens? Having notes functionality is useful but it's so annoying having the thing constantly appear.
We could go Orchid Notes but there is no web screen component.
Did you find a solution how to disable the notes popping up for some users? For some of the users who have nothing to do with notes feature are getting really annoyed with it popping up all the time. There must be a way to disable it.
Remove the rights to Notes in the User Authorizations.
Even if the user does not have authorization to Notes, Notes pop-up still appears. It just disable the user rights to edit the Notes. I know the purpose of Notes is to alert the users but there are many users within our company that do not need to be alerted so Notes pooping up can be distracting and annoying for them. I hope someone can suggest a fix to this ASAP.
You are correct. Please add the idea to the Sage 300 ideas forum
fyi: I gave up months ago and uninstalled Notes...
i too found it frustrating and uninstalled. Wish that Sage would consult on on how these features are implemented.
Orchid Notes is far superior.
Here's the relevant idea on the forum. Lets all pile in and vote on it. And comment.
https://www5.v1ideas.com/TheSageGroupplc/Sage300ERP/Idea/Detail/27745
If you want to get rid of the notes, including what is stored in them and stop them from appearing then you need to delete the KN record in CSAPP, then delete all the records in DATADICT where the TABLENAME like 'KN%' and finally drop all tables where the name starts with KN. On my test system, this doesn't appear to have caused me any issues and so far, fingers crossed, the notes have finally disappeared.
Hi, can you please explain the steps involved to disable Notes? I do not know what is KN record or CSAPP. I also do not know how to access DATADICT.
It's done via sql. I'll dig out the script I wrote that does it and post it later. It's on my other machine
If you're not familiar with doing anything in SQL, then I would probably avoid doing this.
select * from CSAPP where SELECTOR = 'KN'
delete from CSAPP where SELECTOR = 'KN'
select * from DATADICT where TABLENAME like 'KN%'
delete from DATADICT where TABLENAME like 'KN%'
drop table KNNOTEH
drop table KNNTBLOB
drop table KNNTDIS
drop table KNSEQ
Other options to deactivate a module include using the Sage SDK (tool use by developer partners)
or the excellent Tairox FastDBTools program (a tool that IMO _should_ be used by all partners)
I'd agree regarding the Tairox program. It's an excellent product. The SDK module is fine, but we don't install that on customer's systems. The SQL script does the same as a deactivation.
Musick International offers a FREE deactivate/remove application utility as part of DataCheck/FixIT.
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