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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://forums.method.me/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Method:Classic General Q&amp;amp;A</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/13.aspx</link><description>Ask technical support questions, how do I? Questions... Or anything else you want to know from the Method Team and other Method users.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 SP2 (Build: 31113.47)</generator><item><title>Re: Budgets</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/5826.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:05:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:5826</guid><dc:creator>Method_Michael</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/5826.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=5826</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;Hi Michael,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;What you mentioned above is possible and it can be done in many different ways.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;Easy Method&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;You can use the &lt;em&gt;Retrieve value from table&lt;/em&gt; action to retrieve a sum to show on the screen, in your case a sum of invoices based on sales rep and date range. As for assigning a budget you could create a field in the Sales Rep table where you can store a budget.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Not so easy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Method&lt;/span&gt; (But really awesome looking)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;You can create a chart, similar to the Sales Centre Dashboard. This blog post &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.methodintegration.com/cs/blogs/methodblog/archive/2010/12/29/charts-in-method-report-designer.aspx" title="Charts"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; goes over creating a chart in Method, the same concept found in the blog entry can be used for sales rep instead of customer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;Another option is to make a report in Method that can be generated as a pdf and displayed or printed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;Pip pip cheerio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-FAMILY:&amp;#39;Arial&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;COLOR:black;FONT-SIZE:10pt;"&gt;-Michael&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Budgets</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/5824.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:07:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:5824</guid><dc:creator>Omnimed</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/5824.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=5824</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello I am new to this so here we go all the way from the UK&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would like the sales representatives who now all have their own sign on to see their total sales by customer within a month and then cumulative? Can this be done and can I add a budget so they too can see how they are performing?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Michael&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>