If you have Sage Mas90/200 Custom Office version 4.2 or later, there is an interesting feature in Custom Office that you may not have noticed. It is only available on the Business Framework modules, which currently include AR,AP,GL,SO and BR, but it’s a handy feature. Advanced Field Settings allows you to change settings on standard fields in the Mas90/200 database. Most people are familiar with setting up User Defined Fields (UDF’S), but Advanced Field Settings lets you set defaults, make fields required and set validation values for standard Mas90/200 database fields. Example: Customer Comment field. You can make this field a “required” field, to be one of the words: Retail, Wholesale, Government. The system will require operators to enter one of these responses in the comment-field when setting up any new customers. Call Friendly Systems tech-support if you need assistance with this feature in Custom Office.

Slow performance, hanging, Error 12, Error 0, or “Invalid Handles” in Sage MAS 90 or 200 may be caused by your anti-virus programs. Have your system administrator check your anti-virus program settings.

Data files used for Mas90/200 business framework modules have been converted to a new file structure beginning with Mas90/200 Version 4.00. The Data File names now end with a suffix of .M4T as the standard file type. File types .SOA still exist.

If running anti-virus software on either the client workstation or the server, configure the anti-virus software to exclude all files with .SOA, .M4T, .M4T, .M4L, and .PVC extensions.

Some anti-virus software programs have a setting to scan network files. If so, deselect ‘Network Scanning’ of files on all workstations and the server.