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 When I select the work order list tab, in existing workorders, I see two date boxes at the top.  The boxes say "to date", and "from date", when I select my dates and hit the refresh screen nothing happens. 

cmogletree, Do you mind providing the steps you are taking? What exactly do you mean by "will not allow me to refresh my screen to a specific time frame."?

 Within the scheduling and invoice tab, when I put create a work order with a specific date, it will not allow me to refresh my screen to a specific time frame. 

Now I realize what is happening.  The '%' followed by numbers is being intrepreted as a URL encoded entity.  I need to URL encode the '%' with '%25'.  Now I am retreiving what I expected.

I think I have answered my own question.  When I hard code '%' into the where clause, I get no data.  If I include '%' as part of the search parameter typed into the form, I get data. I am not sure why there is a difference in the results, but at least I can move forward.  

I am using PHP CURL to request data using MethodAPISelect_XMLV2.  I am making successful requests until I try using LIKE in the where clause.  For example, if I use           strWhereClause=RefNumber = '123' data is retrieved. If, however, I ...

Excellent!  I haven't touched email functionality (I'm working my way there as I customize), so I won't be able to confirm it for you today, but what you're describing is exactly what I wanted.  But I'll try to remember to post back when I get there. 

Paul, That all makes sense to me.  I have a lot of questions about the use of some of the Actions, many of which are somewhat theoretical in nature as I can usually get everything to work, but I'm not sure I'm really taking proper advantage of the intent AND functionality of an Action.  For example there are still several ...

… if the above doesn't help, I would also check software firewalls, hardware firewalls, and anti-virus. It could just be that the Method Report Designer needs to be allowed to "talk" to the internet on the computer.

Hi cmogletree, I'm going to assume it's not a account name, user name and password issue. I took the message you were getting and popped into my dear friend Google to get an opinion. Google... [quote user="cmogletree"]"The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive."[/quote] One of ...