• 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…