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Hey developers, I wanted to let everyone know that we made two API calls available today: MethodAPICreateTable and MethodAPICreateField. These simulate what you can do directly in the Method web app, under Customize > Tables / Fields.  So in other words you can create your own tables, as well as add fields to existing tables.  ...

Laura, It looks like this is a bug with the developers of the report designer component we use.  While we work to get a permanent solution, you can follow the steps below for a fix. 1.    Click on the Detail Report band. 2.    On the right hand side under ‘Property Grid’ look for ‘Data Member’. 3.   ...

Hi Laura, We`re taking a closer look at this and will have an update for you shortly. Regards,

I've had a couple of problems in designing a report for Purchase Orders.  I cannot get the report to display all of the items properly in the detail section of the report.  Also, I cannot get the report to display certain fields until the user clicks "Save" on the screen.   For the details problem, I created the ...

Hello everyone!  I just wanted to update you on the fact that currency will now be reflected in Method as dictated by the Regional Settings on your computer.  If you're using Windows Vista, go to Start > Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region > Regional and Language Options.  Set the locale to your preference and ...

Hi Rod, Well, filtering dropdown lists is certainly on the horizon for Method.  We'll be adding that functionality in the near future.  However, in the meantime, you can set up a conditional warning only allows users to select accounts that begin with 9999. You would need to add this to every Save button and Save & New button ...

Paul, I will post something for you to get a better understanding of what we are trying to do....we're in the "rabbit hole" right now and trying to work this out a bit more...so I appreciate you helping on this "granular" level as it is helping us. Cheers Brent

"It seems the Fields from the Customer Tables are linked with Quickbooks. If so, is it possible to get activate the customfields for Customer Table from quickbooks or is that only possible by learning the Quickbooks SDK? Any limitations on the amount of "custom fields"?"-These are just the custom fields from QuickBooks.  ...

I have copied the Check screen and want to limit the Account field to a subset of the bank accounts.  I have tried using different actions but have not come up with the proper result.  If I wanted to limit the accounts in the drop down to those that had bank numbers starting with 9999, how would I do that? Thanks in advance, Rod

Paul...our programmer asks the following... Here is his original question again and below his follow up question:....//"CustomFields are not returning when i tried with MethodAPIFieldList which will return list of fields for the Customer table..(According to method documentation, we can post the values to the fileds, which is returning by ...