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We’re currently pushing a minor update to Professional Services. We ask that you avoid clicking and being in the Professional Services tab until this update is complete. Other areas of Method will not be affected. The updated was complete Thank you,

Here are the updates for the Feb 23, 2011 Dashboard: •    Minor cosmetic updates to fonts and help notes on screen. Budgets / Contracts: •    New Refresh button for the details grid. •    New reports available under 'Print...' for the details section. •    ...

Hello, We’ll be pushing a wave of updates this week to Professional Services Beta on Wednesday, February 23rd from 9:00am to 11:00am Eastern Time. We ask that you avoid clicking and being in the Professional Services tab during this time. Other areas of Method will not be affected. Thank you, The updated was complete as planned. Please ...

Hi, We’ve labelled ‘Cost’ and ‘Markup’ as they appear in the same area of QuickBooks. The only difference is in QuickBooks you can enter values such as “50%” in the cost column and “100%” in the Markup column. Where as in Method you have to indicate if the value for cost is a % and if the ...

 James, Glad to see my advice helped you get on your way. I really do think you’re better off using lose focus when it comes to columns that are number values.   Where are you storing these price levels? I’m not sure how your customization is set up but you might be able to avoid the all the conditional statements. The ...

Mark, Can you replicate this issue on demand? Is there a particular screen it is happening on more than others? I’ll keep my eye out for it...I use FF a lot.

Hi Caliper, There are different ways to perform basic math using grid columns. You can add actions to each of the grid’s columns using events like text change, gain or lose focus as appropriate. The key is to determine what will trigger the actions. For example: If I wanted to calculate column1 + column2 and enter it in column3 it would ...

James and John, I stand corrected, we do have a debugging tool. I simply forgot about it because I’m used to the old-fashioned way of doing this but you have both inspired me here.  You can find the tool under Customize>>>Display to “Enable Debug Tracing”. When you run an action with this turned on it should give ...

 Hi James, Yes, Method is capable of handling nested conditional statements. Give it a try and I’m sure you will find it works as you hope. You are right, the Actions reference guide does not explicitly state that conditional statements can be nested but it also does not state that they cannot be nested. The Actions reference guide is ...

Hi James, From what I’m reading, the Show Message action is on the text change event for the Item dropdown? Is it the very first action and are you displaying a message in the action? I just tested this on my account in the same area by showing a message with the value Type In "Test" and it pops up every time I change my ...