Global Enhancements

Expanded Name Fields

The following fields have been expanded to 50 characters:

• Customer name
• Customer contact name
• Vendor contact name
• Confirm to name
• Requested by name

The fields previously held 30 characters. Note that the field for vendor names was expanded to 50 characters in a previous release.

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Expanded Fields for Address Information

The following fields have been expanded for customer, vendor, and employee addresses:

• Address lines: from 30 to 40 characters
• City: from 20 to 30 characters
• Country name: from 30 to 50 characters

Changes for Telephone and Fax Fields

The following changes have been made for telephone and fax number fields.

• Telephone and fax number fields have been expanded from 17 to 20 characters.
• The telephone extension field has been expanded from 5 to 6 characters.
• A Type field has been added for customer, vendor, and contact telephone numbers. You can select Work, Cell, Home, or Other.
• A Primary check box has been added for the two telephone number fields in Customer Contact Maintenance and Vendor Contact Maintenance.

International Address Support

You can now enter an international address for customers, vendors, and contacts. To support international addresses, the following changes have been made:

• The Country field has been moved above the address lines. A country code is needed to ensure that the correct city and state or province is entered based on the ZIP or postal code.
• ZIP Code fields have been renamed ZIP/Postal Code.
• State fields have been renamed State/Province.
• Telephone and fax number fields support international number formats.
• In Company Maintenance, the following changes were made:
• On the Main tab, the following fields were added: Country, ZIP/Postal Code, City, State/Province.
• An Additional tab was added to this task. The federal and state tax ID number fields were moved to this tab, and fields for contact information and a trade name were added.
• On the Preferences tab, a Default Country Code field was added.

Map Service Choices

You now have a choice of which map service to use when you click a Map button next to address field. A Select Map Service field has been added to the following locations:

• The Preferences tab in User Maintenance.
• The User Settings window accessed from the File menu.

You can select Bing Maps, Google Maps, or MapQuest.

Note: This feature is available if you purchased Sage 100 through a subscription plan.

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Export to Excel Button Added for List Boxes

An Export to Excel button allows you to export the contents of a list box to Microsoft Excel. The button has been added for numerous list boxes throughout Sage 100.

As part of this enhancement, the related module option in Role Maintenance has been renamed Allow Export to Excel from Lookups/Grids/Lists.

Add PII Work Tables To Custom Reports

You can add multiple work tables that contain personally identifiable information (PII) to custom reports. When running the Menu Wizard accessed through Report Manager, if you’re adding a custom report for which work tables that contain PII are available, you’ll have the opportunity to add them. Note that users’ ability to view PII is dependent on their role security. Currently only the General Ledger and Payroll modules include work tables that contain PII.

Admin Rights Not Required for Workstation Synchronization

You no longer need administrative rights on your workstation to run the Workstation Synchronization program that automatically starts after some Sage 100 updates are installed on the server.

To eliminate the need for administrative rights, some files are now installed in a different location. The Sage folder that was previously installed in this location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files

Is now installed in this location:

C:\Program Data

Customization Import

Use this utility to import custom settings if you were using the classic Desktop in an earlier version of Sage 100 and made any of the following customizations:

• Added tasks to a public or private folder on the My Tasks tab
• Added tasks or shortcuts to other programs to the button bar

If you’re using the latest version of Sage 100 on the same workstation as your earlier version, the utility adds your public and private tasks and shortcuts to other programs to the Favorites panel on the standard Desktop.

To start this utility, on the Desktop File menu, point to Desktop Utilities, and click Customization Import.

Logging Level

Use this utility if asked to do so by Sage customer support. This utility was previously accessed by browsing to the ..\MAS90\Launcher\ folder and double-clicking launcher.logging.exe.

To start this utility, on the Desktop File menu, point to Desktop Utilities, and click Logging Level.

Links to Sage University Training

A Sage University button ( ) has been added to additional task windows in the Common Information and Library Master modules and to the Visual Process Flows Manager window.

Click the button to view a list of training videos related to the task. Depending on your Business Care plan, there may be no charge to watch the videos.