Monat: September 2020

We’re the employees you would hire if you could. Responsive, helpful, and dedicated in ways automation simply can’t be. We’re your team.

Each month we recognize one of our Most Helpful Humans in Hosting.

David Richard’s path to Liquid Web differs from most. He started his career as an English teacher at a middle school in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, enjoying teaching immensely. He then moved to the Lansing area to try his hand at teaching college. All along the way, he continuously dabbled in technology. When his time at the college came to an end, he joined Liquid Web as a Windows Support Administrator.

Having spent most of his time working with Windows, he thought he knew plenty about Windows servers. He quickly discovered that he knew nothing about them when it came to web hosting and the plethora of ways customers use Windows Servers. After a fantastic year and half with the Windows Team, David landed a dream role as the Technical Writer for the Help Center. Not only does he get to work with technology, but also gets to use his language and writing skills to help the company and our customers.

We caught up with David to find out what gives him passion at Liquid Web.

Why did you join Liquid Web?

I’d heard great things about the company for years. As a long time Lansing resident, I knew many employees, and they all spoke highly of the work environment and the company as a whole.

I’ve always loved technology, so that was my biggest draw to joining the Hosting Industry. I love working in an industry that makes technology solutions available to small and medium-sized businesses that would otherwise have a difficult time implementing the servers/services they need to compete in the market.

Is there something specific at Liquid Web that you just love?

I really love the drive everyone has to solve each and every problem until resolution. I was challenged from day one to solve problems that came to me, not shelve them or “pass the ball,” even if the problem wasn’t part of my responsibilities. Every employee strives to be the best at what they do and actually seeks out problems to test themselves against. I don’t know if it’s the gamer background or something about being nerds, but everyone I’ve worked with gets very excited when they encounter a challenge they haven’t seen before. There is a definite thrill of victory that lives in our culture.

At the end of the day, helping the customer succeed in their business and have a positive experience while keeping their server and website(s) running smoothly is what matters most at Liquid Web.

In your eyes, what’s the difference between Liquid Web and other employers?

Liquid Web, from people and technology, to processes and projects, is laser-focused on becoming the Most Loved Host on our planet by being the most helpful we can to our customers, every time. At other companies, I was encouraged to simply stay in my lane and not go out of my way to do anything extra for others. At Liquid Web, we are all encouraged to help each other and our customers as much as we are able.

What is the biggest milestone you’ve accomplished?

While I was still a Windows Support Administrator, I wrote an article on How to Install Pip on Windows as part of our Internal Writing Program, which is a unique and fun program at Liquid Web designed to leverage internal expertise to generate new content. It was a simple little article that now has over 1.5 million pageviews since it was published in January 2019, and has the highest pageviews monthly of any KB on our site.

Tell us about a truly rewarding experience you’ve had with a customer.

One of the most rewarding (and terrifying) experiences I’ve had at Liquid Web is helping customers with migrating their servers. Getting server migrations right is critical for our customers’ businesses, as we need to ensure all of the data is moved successfully, and their sites and applications work as intended and are online as much as possible during the process. As I performed more and more server migrations, it became clear that my primary responsibility, besides performing the migration, was to make a potentially very difficult and scary transition much easier for our customers through communication.

Hearing the customers’ stress levels dissipate as I communicated during each stage of the migration, and created a positive experience with them, was truly rewarding. And it’s just as rewarding now to help customers proactively by providing help with articles on our Knowledge Base and Help Center databases.

What is one thing you wish our customers knew about their hosting?

I wish more customers were aware of how important it is to keep their code, applications, operating systems (OS) and software up-to-date. So many issues can be resolved by installing the latest patches and updates on a regular basis. Updating and migrating can be a scary process, but not nearly as scary as losing all your data to a successful ransomware attack.

Work aside, what are some of your hobbies?

My biggest hobby is spending time with my family. I have a beautiful wife and two wonderful daughters that occupy the majority of my time. I also love to read Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, and I enjoy dabbling and tinkering in the garage on small projects.

What is your favorite TV show?

I’ve watched through Friends a number of times, as well as The Mentalist. At the moment, I’m really liking The Prodigal Son.

What is your favorite app?

Based on usage alone, it would be Slack. Both Liquid Web and my church use Slack for all kinds of conversations, and it has been especially useful during quarantine in 2020.

If you could have dinner with one famous person [dead or alive] who would it be?

I’d probably have dinner with Blackbeard, one of the most cunning and feared pirates during the early 17th century. He seems like a very interesting guy, and I’d see if I could find out where he hid all his treasure.

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There are a lot of things that play a massive part in the process of improving your wellness, and this is something to consider right now. You have to think carefully about the different ideas that are going to play a part in helping you take things to the next level in terms of your physical fitness. This is something that you need to make the most of right now, and there are a lot of things that play a role in this.  Pixabay It is crucial that you do as much as you can to improve the way you live your life, as well as the physical fitness and well-being you strive for. This is something that plays a massive part in the decisions you make right now, and you need to make sure you come up with ideas that can help you to play a part in this, and physical fitness is essential. Here are some of the key fitness hacks you should be using right now. Keep it Up One of the key things you need to remember is trying to take steps to help you improve your fitness by keeping up with your exercise. This is one of the most important things that you need to look into right now, and there are a lot of elements that play a role in this moving forward. Try to consider what it takes to improve this, and there are loads of ideas that will let you take things to the next level in terms of having a regular workout regime.  Set a Good Example to Your Family Setting a good example to the family is really important when it comes to improving and assessing the health and fitness of everyone in your household. You need to lead by example and do as much as you can to come up with ideas that are going to help you focus on sticking with your fitness commitment, and setting an excellent example in the process. This is something you need to consider moving forward right now.  Dress for the Part Dressing for the part is one of the biggest considerations you need to make when it comes to taking your fitness and physical exercise more seriously. You are going to need to make sure you think about what it takes to bring this forward and ensure you look as great as possible. Dressing in the right kinds of workout clothes is really key, and that means looking at rainbow tights as well as choosing the right sneakers.  Diversify Your Exercise Diversifying your exercise and fitness regimen is one of the best things you can do to keep interested and invested in working out. There are a lot of things you can do to help with this, and it is important that you make sure you are focused on making the most of this moving forward. Whether it’s running, cycling, swimming, hitting the gym, or any other form of fitness, it is important that you have a good range to choose from.  Making the most of your fitness regime and well-being is one of the most important things you can do. This is so important when it comes to making the right decisions in life, and helping you to take things to the next level. Try to come up with some of the best possible ideas that are going to allow you to make the most of this, and these can help you in that regard.

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As you all know in Sage X3, Users can close any Work Order after Production Tracking by using WO Close screen. But one of our client wanted to restrict that WO Close functionality until that particular Work Order is Completely Tracked and Quality Control Transaction is done. Now we will see both the conditions one by one:

1. WO should be Completely Tracked:

As you can see in the below screenshot, there are three checkboxes on Production Tracking Screen i.e. Operation Tracking, Production Reporting and Material Tracking. If all the three checkboxes are ticked after creation of Production Tracking entry for any particular Work Order then only that Work Order will be considered as “Completely Tracked WO”. And if in case one of them or two of them are not ticked then that work order is not completely tracked WO.

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[Production Tracking Screen]

In Production Tracking Number – 101/MFG/19-20/0056, all the three checkboxes are ticked which means 101/PROD/19-20/0077 is the completely tracked Work Order.

2. Quality Transaction should be done:

In Quality Control screen of Stock module, if the transaction is done against the same Production Tracking Entry and Quality “A” or “R” is entered in quality control detail for total quantity of that WO then only that Transaction will be considered as complete. If the status of the work order products is in “Q” then it will consider that Quality Transaction is not clear. That means the work order Products status should be either Accepted (A) or Rejected (R) but it should not be in the Quality (Q).

As you can see in the below screenshot, Work Order – 101/PROD/19-20/0077 is in “Q” status and quality transaction is not done for this Work Order.

[Quality Control Screen – Q Status]

If both the conditions are satisfied then only Work Order should be allowed to close. But if one of those two conditions is not satisfied and you click on Close Button for that particular Work Order in WO Close screen, then it will give you an error that “WO cannot be closed unless it is completely tracked and quality has been done” and will not allow to close that Work Order as shown in the below screenshot.

[WO Close screen – Error Message]

As we already know, for Work Order – 101/PROD/19-20/0077, first condition is satisfied but second condition is not satisfied because of which it is giving an error when you try to close that order in WO Close screen.

After entering quality control detail in Quality Control screen, status has changed to “A” and both the conditions for Work Order -101/PROD/19-20/0077 are satisfied now. And user can close the Work Order easily. Refer below screenshot in which status is “A”.

[Quality Control Screen – A Status]

After clicking on close button, that work Order is closed easily without getting any error in WO Close screen and “Close” button is disabled automatically.

[WO Status – Closed]

Hence with the help of this customization, WO Close functionality will get restricted unless it is completely tracked and quality transaction is done(A and R).

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Greytrix – a globally recognized and one of the oldest Sage Development Partner is a one-stop solution provider for Sage ERP and Sage CRM organizational needs. Being acknowledged and rewarded for multi-man years of experience, we bring complete end-to-end assistance for your technical consultations, product customizations, data migration, system integrations, third-party add-on development and implementation competence.

Greytrix caters to a wide range of Sage X3, a Sage Business Cloud Solution, offerings. Our unique GUMU integrations include Sage X3 for Sage CRM, Salesforce.com, Dynamics 365 CRM and Magento eCommerce along with Implementation and Technical Support worldwide for Sage X3. Currently we are Sage X3 Implementation Partner in East Africa, Middle East, Australia, Asia, US, UK. We also offer best-in-class Sage X3 customization and development services, integrated applications such as POS | WMS | Payment Gateway | Shipping System | Business Intelligence | eCommerce and have developed add-ons such as Catch – Weight  and Letter of Credit and India Legislation for Sage X3 to Sage business partners, end users and Sage PSG worldwide.

Greytrix is a recognized Sage champion ISV Partner for GUMU Sage X3 – Sage CRM integration also listed on Sage Marketplace; GUMU integration for Sage X3 – Salesforce is a 5-star rated app listed on Salesforce AppExchange and GUMU integration for Dynamics 365 CRM – Sage ERP listed on Microsoft AppSource.

For more information on Sage X3 Integration and Services, please contact us at x3@greytrix.com, We will like to hear from you.

In Sage X3, we are working on payment integration from x3 to the third party payment gateway. Here, we are doing sale/auth/refund/void transactions on the client’s payment gateway through Sales Order/Invoice transactions from X3. Here, we will provide prepayment & payment deletion functionality through the void button.

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Prepayment & Payment deletion in x3

As per the requirement analysis and the functionality provided, we are creating automated prepayment and payment in x3 on the click of sale button from Sales Order which will create Sale transaction in the payment gateway respectively. After the successful payment & prepayment creation, if the user wants to cancel or refund the transaction created on payment gateway, the adverse effect in x3 will be deleting the payment & prepayment created against the sales order.

Note:This will be only applicable if the respective payment and prepayment against the sales order is not posted in x3.

If the payment is posted for the sales order in x3, then the user need to manually run account cancellation process from the payment entry in x3 to cancel/refund the payment transaction in x3. There are many validations which we need to check while deleting the payment which are as follows:

• Payment and prepayment should exist for the particular sales order.
• Sales Order status should not be closed.
• Payment against the sales order should not been posted.
• Closing table whichever opened while deleting the payment and prepayment entry to avoid systematic error I.e. “Too many tables opened in x3”

In our analysis, we have found out there are few hurdles coming in the way while deleting the payment which we need to handle through code i.e to set default mask as sales order mask again to avoid different system errors.

Working:

Call AV_ANNULE2([L]CODE,FLGLOT) From SUBPAY3:

The above statement is written to call specific standard delete function from x3.

Delete [ZPYH] where NUM=ZPAYNUM

The above statement is written to delete payment entry from the payment table from x3.

Delete [ZDUD]  where NUM=ZVCRNUM

The above statement is written to delete prepayment entry from the prepayment table from x3.

Gosub AP_ANNULE  From SUBPAY3

The above statement is written to call the functions used after the deletion of the payment and prepayment entry from x3.

Gosub APRES_ANNULE From SUBPAY3

The above statement is written to call the functions used after the deletion of the payment and prepayment entry from x3.

Note: We need to handle any system error occurred during the customization of deletion of payment and prepayment entry against the sales order/invoice screen. Supposedly if we are opening masks or tables opened for our process then we need to close the tables and masks to avoid any type of crashing/error in Sales order/delivery/invoice transactions.

We can also provide the same functionality from sales delivery and invoice as well, whenever the user delete/close the sales order and the payment with prepayment is created (payment not posted)

Advantages:

Here, we are having the advantages :-

• We don’t have to manually delete the payment & prepayment entries or run any account cancellation document from payment entry
• All the functionalities runs from a single click from custom button to delete/cancel/refund transaction from Sales order/delivery/invoice.

This blog is used for understanding the process of deletion of payment and prepayment from Sales Order through code before payment posting and without effecting standard functionalities or crashing the screen. This blog’s functionality will provide users to delete payment and prepayment through sales order/delivery/invoice screen from a single click whenever the user want to cancel/delete/refund any sale transactions.

About Us

Greytrix – a globally recognized and one of the oldest Sage Development Partner is a one-stop solution provider for Sage ERP and Sage CRM organizational needs. Being acknowledged and rewarded for multi-man years of experience, we bring complete end-to-end assistance for your technical consultations, product customizations, data migration, system integrations, third-party add-on development and implementation competence.

Greytrix caters to a wide range of Sage X3, a Sage Business Cloud Solution, offerings. Our unique GUMU integrations include Sage X3 for Sage CRM, Salesforce.com, Dynamics 365 CRM and Magento eCommerce along with Implementation and Technical Support worldwide for Sage X3. Currently we are Sage X3 Implementation Partner in East Africa, Middle East, Australia, Asia, US, UK. We also offer best-in-class Sage X3 customization and development services, integrated applications such as POS | WMS | Payment Gateway | Shipping System | Business Intelligence | eCommerce and have developed add-ons such as Catch – Weight  and Letter of Credit and India Legislation for Sage X3 to Sage business partners, end users and Sage PSG worldwide.

Greytrix is a recognized Sage champion ISV Partner for GUMU Sage X3 – Sage CRM integration also listed on Sage Marketplace; GUMU integration for Sage X3 – Salesforce is a 5-star rated app listed on Salesforce AppExchange and GUMU integration for Dynamics 365 CRM – Sage ERP listed on Microsoft AppSource.

For more information on Sage X3 Integration and Services, please contact us at x3@greytrix.com, We will like to hear from you.