Transitioning Open AP from one ERP to another

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Things to consider: Can you pay off all your existing AP prior to transitioning to a new system? This is preferred whenever possible and start your new ERP with fresh AP Consider the length of the address fields in your new…

BL vs. BR What are the major differences?

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BL vs. BR What are the major differences? As a summary, BR allows for different billing options that are not only item – Quantity times Price to invoice. BL allows for creating automatic recurring invoices by running a job that creates…

Custom Scripting in IPA

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Sometimes complex IPA flows can become cumbersome to maintain, or they can experience degraded performance for large record sets. One way to combat these issues is to create custom scripts within your flows to do the “heavy lifting” of the…

Landmark Security Access

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To maintain Landmark Security (classes and roles), in the Gen environment in Rich Client, go to Start > Configure > Security.  If you don’t see the Security or Configure, you will need to have your Security Administrator give you access…

IPA Dynamic Commands

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One way to control the “clutter” on your more complex IPA processes is to utilize the concept of “Dynamic Commands”.  Many times your flows will follow a pattern of reading some sort of data, validating/manipulating the data, then taking…

New Level Addresses

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When changing level addresses on GL20 or AC10 make sure to specify all the level addresses, not just the ones that might have changed. When you create the file for uploading, make sure to have the first level first, the second level next…

Updating Landmark Main Configuration Set After AD FS Implementation

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After AD FS is implemented for your Landmark and LSF environments, Landmark will need to connect to the LSF server using the thick client URL and the user principal name of your admin account.  This means that all of your LSF connections will…

Chart of Accounts when using Activities

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The Chart of accounts is recommended to be consistent for GL and Activities.  The Activity field, when populated, already differentiates the JE entry line from one to the same account without an activity specified.  This allows for easily…

Creating a “Bursted” Income Statement

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To create an income statement for some accounting units, create an Accounting Unit list on MX10 that includes the companies and accounting units that you want to include in the report. Specify that list when running the GL293 and presto –…

Landmark Update Fails with Exit Code 2

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If install-lpa.pl fails with exit code 2, make sure your OS account is configured. To configure the OS account, type command secadm provision os-C -o -a in a Landmark command window.  Then try restarting the Landmark update.