• How long does an upgrade take from BW 2021 to BW 2023?

    This weekend i upgraded our systems from BW 2021sp14 to BW 2023 sp2. But how long did it take? My system is network of 15 desktops running Win 10 and Win11, on Server 2016 ( Dell T550 with RAIDed SSD drives ) all gigabit network connections Our…
  • Export Component List

    I am trying to export the component list for parts within Business Works. There is no way to do this through the program, but was told you can do this through a query in excel. Does anyone have experience with this? Can someone provide steps to query…
  • SYSTEM Backup files - SMUSERTASKS - filie is approaching 10 MB on server

    SMUSERTASKS - if this is too technical of a question we can ignore it(delete). As a BW user for 28 years our file SMUSERTASKS has grown to nearly 10MB and takes 4 to 5 minutes to backup or restore (SYSTEM backup) . Should this file be this large and…
  • Upgrading from Sage 2015 to SageBW 2020 new server

    I've installed SageBW 2020 on a new Windows 2019 datacenter server. I am at the step where i need to restore the systems db and running into the following... should i proceed with update of Sage BW DB's?
  • Upgrade issues... anyone else experiencing?

    We did the upgrade from 2020 to 2021 yesterday and I've received the following from employees on items not functioning as before and/or general irritants: ALL areas where notes are - Notes no longer wrap around, they do a long single line, requiring…
  • Any data file changes from BW v2013 to BW v2015, v2017, v2018

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    I use access to run a bunch of custom reports via odbc for a client of mine. the reports pull from G/L, A/P and Job cost. I want to bring them to v2015 or v2017, but I need to know first if the data file names, field names, etc. have changed? Thanks…
  • Importing Journal Entries affecting cash into the Cash Management module

    I import journal entries (JE) into the General Ledger module, some of which affect cash accounts. However, they do not depict on the Cash Account Register in the Cash Management module. I have to manually re-enter the JEs via the "Enter Bank Transaction…
  • several errors on database connection

    After a few days ago our workstartions frozen after 2-3 minutes , and came up errors about database connection , such this ones: Unable to get Database Names count (7004: Failes to connect to the named server and/or database) And derive to…