Multiple Company Logos

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We recently upgraded from 18.1 to 19.4.  Our company has two divisions but its all filed under one tax ID.  Previously on Version 18.1 We had a mapped drive for each divisions Report Forms so all the reports pertaining to one division would have one logo and all the reports and invoices for the other division would have its logo.  When going to print a report or invoice you simply had to choose the mapped drive drop down to point to each Report Form.  Now with 19.4 we are missing this option.  I attempted to call support but felt like they did not understand what I was trying to do even when I had them remote into our system and show them.  They even provided a help document that said you can no longer do this but with my reading it seemed to prove that it should work..

18.1

19.4

The document support gave me on how to resolve this but based I what I am reading this document tells me to do how we previously had it setup.

How do I use multiple logos in Sage 100 Contractor Version 19 and higher? (create mapped drive for each company)

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Sage 100 Contractor

Description

How can I use a different custom logo for each company I have in Sage 100 Contractor Version 19.2 and higher?

Cause

With the release of v19 of Sage 100 Contractor (Sage 100CON), the way custom reports are evaluated has changed.

Each time Sage 100CON is opened, it reads the c:\mb7 folder and writes any custom reports and forms to the %localappdata%\Sage\Sage 100 Contractor\Report Forms path and the shared drive.

Included in this copying process is the logo.bmp file.

Resolution

  1. 1.     Set up different mapped drives for each company (see the linked article, "How do I map a network drive?" for detailed steps.
  2. 2.     Create a MB7 folder in the mapped drive.
  3. 3.     Place the company folder in the [drive letter]:\MB7 folder.
  4. 4.     Create a Report Forms folder in the MB7 folder.
  5. 5.     Place the company's logo in this folder, named logo.bmp.
  6. 6.     After setting up each company all users will need to rename the logo.bmp files in these locations:
  • §  C:\MB7\Report Forms
  • §  %localappdata%\Sage\Sage 100 Contractor\Report Forms
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    Hi Philip

    With version 19, file locations are different.  For your purposes, I think it would be wise to create a separate report form for each company with their respective logos and then when you are printing a report, just select the report form for the company you are using.  For example, many reports in Sage all read from the "system.report" form.  I would edit that and save it as "company a.report" and then again as 'company b.report".  Make sure each report points to the specific company logo path and name (NOT just the default file name called "logo.bmp".  They should all reside in the ONE mapped drive location where the company data sets reside.  For example:  s:\mb7\report forms

    Because that is where Sage looks for forms.  The only other location it looks to is a private location on your own C drive (buried deep within the hidden system file folder (which can changed to be displayed), and that would NOT be available to other workstations.  That is where they end up when you save something as a "private" report or form.

    The other report forms that you will need to create separate files for would be:  AR invoices, any special billing forms like progress or T&M, statements, quotes, etc.  If in fact those have to have logos.  

    All of this requires that you have a good understanding of your windows system.  

  • 0 in reply to Char DeLange

    Hi again

    I have re-read your original post, and you mention having 2 company divisions, but you didn't specify how that is handled.  Is each company a separate data file, or are you using one company file with 2 departments.  Since they share one tax ID, if they are two separate company data sets, then you have to combine them when you print W-2s or 1099's.  This is important to know in order for us to give advice.

    Creating two separate mapped drive locations, one for each company data set each with their own folder called report forms would work.  Then all you have to do is put the logo for each company in those separate locations and call them "logo.bmp".  However, I must warn you that in past versions, when an update is applied the file called "logo.bmp" gets overridden.  So you then have to delete it, and rename your company logo each time.  I'm not sure if that still happens, i haven't had a chance to test it.  

    For example:

    M: mb7\company a

    M:\mb7\report forms\logo.bmp

    N: mb7\company b

    n:mb7\report forms\logo.bmp

    I hope this makes it a little clearer for you.  

  • 0 in reply to Char DeLange

    We use one company data file for both divisions since the company has one Tax ID.

    We have it setup that

    m:\MB7\company data file

    m:\MB7\report forms Company 1

    w:\mb7\report forms Company 2

    As you can see from the images above we previously were able to choose the mapped drive location of the report forms based on which Company logo needed to be used.  But now the drive option is missing when trying to create a report.

    Besides recreating all the reports in one directory is there anyway to use the old functionality?

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  • 0 in reply to Char DeLange

    We use one company data file for both divisions since the company has one Tax ID.

    We have it setup that

    m:\MB7\company data file

    m:\MB7\report forms Company 1

    w:\mb7\report forms Company 2

    As you can see from the images above we previously were able to choose the mapped drive location of the report forms based on which Company logo needed to be used.  But now the drive option is missing when trying to create a report.

    Besides recreating all the reports in one directory is there anyway to use the old functionality?

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