RE: Should you Summarize?

George,

Don't count on GXR.  I have found that it is one record per Journal entry 
only.  Therefore, if you group, and you summarize, you're out of luck.

The end result is:

If you don't group (one trans per journal entry) you can tie to the 
subsystem using GXR with or without analysis fields.

If you group and don't summarize, you half to use the reference fields / 
analysis fields for join information.

If you group and you summarize, there is no way to link back.

Notice, grouping and summarizing together is rare.  It would only apply if a 
particular transaction had multiple lines such as a long A/P entry or Sales 
Invoices with similar lines.  This is generally not a problem for 
reconciliation since we look at totals per invoice anyway.

As far as keeping two sets of books, I think it is generally a waste of disk 
space.  The net result is two entries in the GHH / GLH files rather than 
one.  Even if one entry is summarized, it is still additional records and 
data.

--Paul

----Original Message Follows----
From: "George Sagen" <gsagen@primesourcetech.com>
Reply-To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Subject: RE: Should you Summarize?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:35:20 -0700

In versions 6.04+ a GXR record is created for summarized and grouped records
facilitating a loose tie.


Geo.

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