Author Archive: Charlie
Charlie Russell is the founder of CCRSoftware. He's been involved with the small business software industry since the mid 70's, focusing on inventory and accounting software for small businesses. He is a Certified Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor and participate extensively in the QuickBooks Community user forums under the ID of CCRussell.
Stopping the Windows – No Disk Error
If you have a “card reader” on your system you may get a Windows error message that pops up when you start certain programs (such as the CCRSoftware applications) that is titled Windows – No Disk. You may get this several times in a row before the software starts. Here are some ideas on how [...]
QuickBooks Bug: Building Fractional Assemblies
We spent several days working with one customer who could not get multiple level assemblies to build correctly with CCRQBOM. A requirements report would say that you could build, but when the build was issued the program would say that it couldn’t complete the build and would back everything out. It ends up that there [...]
QuickBooks Shuts Down When Issuing a Build
A user of CCRQBOM contacted us to report a problem when issuing a build transaction, where the build seemed to complete properly in CCRQBOM, but then QuickBooks would want to shut down without the build being recorded in the company file. After examining the file, we found that it was an error in QuickBooks itself.
CCRSoftware and QuickBooks 2010
All current releases of CCRSoftware products do work with QuickBooks 2010 without any problems, but the intial releases of the new version of QuickBooks has a number of bugs that are causing some people problems with some third party products.
Alternating Color Bands for CCRQInvoice Orders
One element that can make a printed invoice easier to read is to print every other detail line with a different background color or shade, so that it is easy to distinguish between the detail lines. This feature can be added very easily to CCRQInvoice form templates, as we will show you in this article.
CCRQBOM Maintenance Release (3.2.2)
We have just released an update to CCRQBOM. If you are using version 3.2.1 then please download the latest version, 3.2.2, from our web site (go to http://www.ccrsoftware.com/CCRQBOM/CCRQBOM.htm and click on the “download free trial link). This release modifies the “Use SubAssembly Balances” feature. In some cases the program was not using all of the [...]
New Release of CCRQBOM
We have released a new version of CCRQBOM. If you have a registered copy you can download and install this update for not additional charge. For a quick overview of the new features, see this article. The new release adds: A Where Used report, listing each component and the assemblies that use them. Additional fields [...]
Adding Line Numbers to Reports
Recently several of our customers have asked if there is a way to add line numbers to their reports. This posting will briefly describe how to accomplish this in both CCRQInvoice and CCRQBOM. We assume that you are familiar with the basics of editing a report.
My CCRSoftware Program No Longer Connects to the Company File
Just a quick note – several of our clients have noted that they suddenly find that their CCRSoftware product can no longer connect to their QuickBooks company file. The symptoms vary, but the most typical are that the CCRSoftware program says that it Cannot open the QuickBooks Company File, and there often is a mention [...]
Adding Calculated Fields to Order Forms
If you have a current copy of CCRQInvoice you can add calculated fields to the form. Today I’ll give a brief demonstration on how to create fields that involve simple calculations based on other fields. In my example, I want to add a “deposit” statement that tells my client that they need to provide a [...]
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