• Save Time and Avoid Loss: Essential Data Backup Tips

    Your data is vulnerable to various risks, such as hardware failures, cyberattacks, and natural disasters. Backing up your data and having those backups easily accessible is often the quickest, most affordable way to recover. In fact, backups may be your…
  • What method do others use for automatic full back-up of BW?

    We recently discovered the remote back-up system we use has only been doing incremental back-ups of Businessworks. We have been told that full back-ups are necessary if we need to restore BW at some point. How are other users handling doing full back…
  • 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…
  • automatic Sage BusinessWorks backup

    Since there is not an automatic Sage BusinessWorks backup. Is there a way to automatically log users off and do a manual folder backup?
  • 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…