Alpha Software Mobile Development Tools:   Alpha Anywhere    |   Alpha TransForm subscribe to our YouTube Channel  Follow Us on LinkedIn  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Facebook
Devcon 2020 Goes Virtual! LEARN MORE >

Announcement

Collapse

The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
See more
See less

Unable To Create New Invoices

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 2
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous 1 2 template Next
  • Adam Kibbe
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    Al was able to help me figure this out. We expanded the size of the field and restarted the sequencing of the invoice numbers. Ray's suggestion was in line with what we needed to do.

    So now the invoice number is 6 characters and is incrementing from 000001, so there should not be any confusion with previous data.
    Last edited by Al Buchholz; 06-12-2011, 12:20 PM.

    Leave a comment:

  • Al Buchholz
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    Originally posted by Adam Kibbe View Post
    I can take a screen shot from my blackberry. What you like a picture of?
    Ray's suggestion of restarting the numbering sequence has merit, unless it would cause linkage problems.

    Send me a private message with your phone number and I'll call you.... or post it here and I'll remove it right away...

    Leave a comment:

  • Adam Kibbe
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    I can take a screen shot from my blackberry. What you like a picture of?

    Leave a comment:

  • Al Buchholz
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    Originally posted by Adam Kibbe View Post
    MS dos running on a netware 3.0 network. This thing is ancient!
    Yes it is. Is there any remote control available? Or can you use a web cam to show the screen?

    Leave a comment:

  • Ray in Capetown
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    Hi Adam
    First, if you can, reset the numbering again from 0001. The previous Invoice 0001 will have been printed more than 5 years ago. So they can go on invoicing.
    Second, heres the rub
    I'm pretty sure from what I've read anyway, that you must be using an Alpha4 whatever version because it runs in DOS. Thats really all that counts.
    Whatever WIN after 98 became a pain to run DOS as far as networking is concerned, XP with SP 2 or 3 managed LPT ports and sharing adequately. Win7 became very fussy with what Win is serving data and especially printers. But WIN7 with a standalone pC and connected LPT1 printer will continue to run fine - probably have to specify XP compatability. I've had easily over a hundred clients running complex apps on Clipper compiler circa1987 - about 20 still going - happily - except for MS version network foibles. thats why I dont think the version of Alpha really matters.

    Those ppl paid like $150 for my fully integrated systems, with all the accounting to balance sheet and bank recon built in plus specialized mods. Thats why some insist I keep them running. Today their only budget choice is off the shelf accounting programs unless they pay what it will cost to get all they had but in GUI. Of course they get a lot more as well as big increase in screen real estate, speed and colour.

    I'm not earning at the moment by developing A5v10 with respect for the record locking of the previous system (Clipper and Alpha4 used the same DOS lock mechanisms built in to the OS and compatible DBF files) but I am succeeding. The idea is to be able to scale upgrade, skipping a good few generations and run alpha on top of existing DOS programs. That should give me jump ahead of the opposition. So if you need advice or want to look for an upgrade path , I am right here ->|<-

    Leave a comment:

  • Adam Kibbe
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    MS dos running on a netware 3.0 network. This thing is ancient!

    Leave a comment:

  • Adam Kibbe
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    Assuming you're correct that it is a character field I am dealing with, any ideas how to change it? Because this beast is running on netware 3, I can't do any screen shots.
    Thanks

    Leave a comment:

  • Al Buchholz
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    Originally posted by Adam Kibbe View Post
    It is Alpha 4 version 3 - Sorry for the confusion
    Good start.

    What version of windows are you running this on? (if any...)

    Leave a comment:

  • Adam Kibbe
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    It is Alpha 4 version 3 - Sorry for the confusion

    Leave a comment:

  • Adam Kibbe
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    It is Alpha 4 version 3. Sorry for the confusion.

    Leave a comment:

  • Al Buchholz
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    Originally posted by Adam Kibbe View Post
    I've tried to increase the field size but keep getting "error incrementing field inv_no".
    That implies to me that the field is a character field.

    But I'm still a little confused about which software you are using.

    Please use print screen and post an image of what you are doing so we are advising you on the wrong basis.

    Leave a comment:

  • Adam Kibbe
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    My friend is still running netware for dos on his machines and is using the old dos based version of Alpha. I'm desperately trying to upgrade to a new platform but and trying to help them limp along until I can figure our how to upgrade them.
    What a mess.

    Leave a comment:

  • Adam Kibbe
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    I've tried to increase the field size but keep getting "error incrementing field inv_no".

    Leave a comment:

  • Al Buchholz
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    Originally posted by DSG View Post
    I'm not certain of this, but I don't think there ever was an Alpha FOUR version 5. I think they went from 4 to 6. Maybe Adam means A5v5

    Duncan
    good point

    Leave a comment:

  • DSG
    replied
    Re: Unable To Create New Invoices

    I'm not certain of this, but I don't think there ever was an Alpha FOUR version 5. I think they went from 4 to 6. Maybe Adam means A5v5

    Duncan

    Leave a comment:

Previous 1 2 template Next
Working...
X