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Sage Report Designer


Hi

I am currently creating a report in Sage to show me the amount paid to suppliers for a given department during a set period of time.

I've made the report and it works fine, however I would like to sort my report by supplier so that I can group suppliers who have been paid numerous times together.  I've tried adding the a sort on PurchaseLedger.Name in the sort menu but this doesn't seem to work.

At present it keeps insisting on sorting by transaction number, even though there are no other sorts set.

Can anyone help me change this?  I can't get rid of the transaction number as this is key to the audit trail on sage.

Thanks



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Hi Rob,

welcome to the forum.

Sorry, no expert on SAGE but from the sound of what you are attempting to do would you not be better using group rather than sort?

On the sort front it sounds as though SAGE has implemented a default sort parameter as no other valid sort parameters exist but you state that the purchaseLedger sort is the only one present?

Talking out of my bum a bit here but with the Sage report designer isn't there criteria for each field that is set to enabled or disabled? Is the PurchaseLedger.Mane field enabled? If not then I'm thinking that it will not allow a sort on that field so SAGE would still default a sort which in this case would be on the transaction number.

Just a suggestion until someone who knows more about SAGE comes along with a better answer as this really isn't my area of expertise at all (my area is Excel) but I know what it's like to be struggling alone with a problem and even silly suggestions can occassionally open channels of thought that just might prove useful.

Also, don't know if you've found it yourself but after a while you start seeing what you think is in front of you rather than what actually is (in my business it's called code blind).

Good luck with tracking the problem. Sure that others will be rushing to your assistance imminently.

All the best,

Shaun.

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Sage reporting system is CRAP!!!

Just had to get that out. I have just changed a client over from Sage to QuickBooks and the bother I had getting accurate payroll journals was unreal, hours of wasted time to get a report that QB could have generated in a few seconds. QB it doesn't shut down the year end, just runs the bloody report you ask it to, doesn't give you 5 different totals and there are filters within the report where you can sort what order you want, easy.

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