RE: automating Create Ledger Entries -- MAPICS-L

Thanks for responding Bob. What the users requested is that I automate the
'Assign Accounts' and 'Create Ledger Entries' options in MAPICS for MAPICS
inventory transactions. I am able to do this using MAPICS APIs. But it
appears that I can only do it if I am not interfacing with IFM. The problem
is the transaction header screen that pops up on the 'Create Ledger Entries'
option. Obviously, in an autamated batch job I am not going to have a screen
pop up in the middle of the night for a user to key in this transaction
header information. So, I need to be able to create that transaction header
in my batch job without having to display a screen for a user to input the
information.

Should I be attempting to automate this process in the first place? Is this
a good idea? We have five locations doing this process. The idea was to
relieve them of this work and have it done automatically every Sunday at
noon for each location.

Thanks for any help

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Tenney [mailto:bobtenney@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:37 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: automating Create Ledger Entries


Chris, I assume that you are trying to interface G/L entries from a
non-MAPICS application to IFM. If this is so, then going through the Legacy
System Bridge is your best bet. You can define an LSB transaction type and
set up many of the defaults for your transaction header. Also, IFM edits LSB
data in the same way that it edits native transactions.

If you try to create a native IFM batch transaction, you have to do all the
internal housekeeping that IFM does when processing LSB records. For
example, you need to assign and increment the transiaction ID that lets IFM
keep transaction header and related detail records together.

If your non-MAPICS application passes invoice or cash information to IFM,
interfacing becomes more complicated. At a minimum, you need to synchronize
vendors/customers, terms, taxes, and banks.

Bob Tenney
Bob Tenney Solutions, LLC
MAPICS - FRx - Crystal Reports
828-526-8976


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Neely, Chris (CAG-PG)" <Chris.Neely@poultry.com>
To: <mapics-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:25 AM
Subject: automating Create Ledger Entries


> Has anyone automated 'Create Ledger Entries' while interfacing with IFM?
>
> I am trying to figure out how to bypass the screen to create the
transaction
> header record so that I can run this as a weekly submitted job. Is there a
> way to create this header record without having the screen pop up? Do I
need
> to use legacy bridge?
>
> It appears easy to automate if I did not have IFM interfacing.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Christopher Neely
> ConAgra Poultry
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