Here's a nifty trick to help you debug a GoldMine Automated Process. GoldMine will trace the steps in a Automated Process during a scan and report each step/event in your GoldMine Process Monitor. Simply put the the following text in the User.ini for the individual who is testing the APs. ...
Author: Bob Ritter
President, First Direct Corp., (845) 221-3800, www.1stdirect.com, www.GoldMinesSuccess.com
“Output To” Files Protected in Microsoft Office Excel 2010
By default MS Office 2010 will open documents in protected mode that fail validation, have been downloaded from the internet, are located in potentially unsafe location and include attachments. Protected view opens the document in read-only mode and minimizes the exposure to some potential security threats. This added security presents...
First Direct #1 GoldMine Solutions Partner
First Direct Corp. maintained its status as the #1 Award Winning GoldMine Solutions Partner for over 10 years with another #1 GoldMine Partner ranking and top 10# Partner Worldwide Award for all of FrontRange Solutions. Bob Ritter, President of First Direct Corporation, states "This award and the many others First...
GM Plus Links with GMPE 9.0.2.36 Update
First Direct Corp. is finding with the 9.02.26 update that the GM Plus links (integration) with MS Word/Excel/Outlook may be broken and need to be replaced after upgrading from earlier versions of 9.x. Here’s one approach to dealing with the user and their GMPE workstation update. After performing the server...
Useful Query for GoldSync Sites and Activity
GoldMine Administrators who have to manage remote GoldMine users and support their GoldSync database synchronization may like this handy SQL query. The following SQL query will list all of your undocked users and sync sites, along with the date of their most recent sync: select sname as Site, convert(varchar(20), cast(left(lastsync,8)...
GMPE 9.0.2.36 Release
FrontRange Solutions has informed First Direct Corp. that the general announcement of GMPE 9.0.2.36 is being sent out Monday 6/13/2011. This release will be made available to all GoldMine Premium Edition customers that are current on the annual FrontRange Maintenance. If you are not current on your maintenance and you...
GoldMine Dashboards Empower Everyone
GoldMine Premium 9.x saw the introduction of a reporting medium known as Dashboards. Dashboards offer benefits for both management and users. Dashboards function real-time with interactive access to data in GoldMine, as well as external MS SQL data on the server which may be stored in another system such as...
You Do NOT Want to Make THIS Call!
We live in a wild world where a computer virus or malicious software (Spy-ware and Mal-ware) can attack and shut your system and business down at any time! You don’t want to be making this call!! It is not uncommon for First Direct to get a call from a GoldMine...
Preferable User Preferences
Please pardon my bad attempt at being clever with the title of this article. So you know what you're getting into, this post has to do with the importance of "User Preferences" in GoldMine software. (Not to be confused with "user rights" or "user properties.") Having trained thousands of GoldMine...
Managing Failure on the Road to Success
Managing Failure on the Road to Success: In the competitive arena of sales, and generally where people’s activities are concerned, most of the emphasis is on recognizing and rewarding success. There is little attention given to failure. We tend to reward success and tell people to “keep up the good...