• Export Component List

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    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…
  • Template needed for import vendor w/ status field

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  • 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…
  • several errors on database connection

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  • Does anyone how I can change (import) part methods to Absolute for multiple items at once?

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