With everything on our plate these days, we could all use a little help. What would you say if I told you there is an option in FE to create a message that would pop up when anyone opens the specific record? Hopefully you're saying, "WOW that would be awesome! I know just how I can use that...

Do you remember the last time you changed your Financial Edge password? If you can't, then it's time for a change. For security reasons, you should change your password regularly. Log into The Financial Edge. Select Edit, Change Password from the menu bar. Note: If Change Password is grayed out...

At some point we all need to perform the dreaded reconciliation process. It can go smoothly, especially if you reconcile on a regular basis, or can be a headache if you don't reconcile regularly and have inconsistent data entry. Some good news is beginning in version 7.77; we've implemented new...

Over the past few years, many of you have requested the ability to export either the short or long description for table entries. Well, I am happy to announce that your wish has been granted in FE version 7.77, due out later this year. With this release, you will have the option to export the long description...

I wanted to share another great new feature with you guys that will be implemented in FE 7.77! This one will help if you find inconsistencies in your data that could cause reconciliation issues, such as transaction dates not matching post dates or transactions posting to the incorrect accounts. When...

Duplicate query results is extremely frustrating, but are they really duplicates ? When a record appears more than once, it could be that the record meets the query criteria multiple times or the output includes one or more one-to-many fields . The good new is, when you use the query as a filter in reports...

No I'm sorry to say I don't have an answer to the gas price crisis, but I do have good news about city names. Do you have slightly different ways of spelling the same city in your database such as North Pleasantville, N Pleasantville, and N . Pleasantville? Have you steamed "it's all...

If you are frustrated by looking at columns on records and wishing there was a way to remove them, your wish has been granted. Well, it has been granted in some areas including the Activity tab of records, Student Billing Detail tab of payments, the Line Items tab of an Invoice, and the Reports Page...

If your fiscal year ended June 30, you may suddenly start receiving errors such as Period Closed or Period Not Found when posting to General Ledger. These errors happen when transactions post to a hard-closed, soft-closed, or an undefined fiscal year. To resolve the error: Review the Batch Validation...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're looking for a transaction but it's missing from the Activity tab of the record? You know the charge exists because you're the one that added it or you've seen it before, but where did it go? Where's Waldo's transaction?...