In the process of writing a 3 day administrator training course, I thought it a good opportunity to list some of the lesser known features including some of the registry entries that I have found useful in the past. Note that they are machine and Windows user specific.

• Excluding your company's signature images from being added as an attachment everytime you Send SLX or Record To History.
  You can use one or more of the following registry keys on each machine:
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SalesLogix\Outlook\
  NAME (STRING): MinImageSizeTolgnore
  VALUE: 3000
  This can be a string or integer and should be the size in bytes of the image files you want SLX to ignore. Graphics files (JPEG, JPG, BMP and GIF) below this value will be ignored and a user will only be prompted if there are other files of a larger size
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SalesLogix\Outlook\
  NAME (STRING): IgnoreFileNames
  VALUE: BenWhiteSig.jpg;*
  Simply add the name of the file to ignore. You can have multiple file names seperated by semicolons (but no spaces). You can also use the * and ? characters as wildcards. I might suggest that you name your signature image BenWhiteSig.jpg or similar.
• Mail Merge output to a single MS Word document instead of 1 per contact.
  Add the following registry key to each machine that needs to merge:
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SalesLogix\MailMerge\
  NAME (DWORD): ContactsPerDocument
  VALUE: 100
  The above values will merge 100 contacts into a single document before merging the next 100 into a new one and so on. The reason SLX doesn't do this as default is because Word will crash if too many contacts are merged into a single document. What the maximum value will be will depend on your machine's RAM and processor.

These are the ones that I have got documented and used myself, but I am sure there are others out there...

Ben

Hi Ben

Hope things are going well for you at BDE (did you hear Tom left?) - anyhow, here's a few more for your course (and a correction for MM!)

Regards,
Mike

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Events Logging
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Set the DWORD value to 1:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\\SalesLogix", "EventsLogging"

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Provider logging:
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "SOFTWARE\\SalesLogix\\SLXOLEDB", "debuglevel". It should be set to a non-zero value.

But needs SysInternals DebugView to display output

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Mail-Merge to Single Document
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SalesLogix\MailMerge\CombineOutputToFile
CombineOutputToFile: DWORD 1=True; 0=False
Applies to: Output to file only.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SalesLogix\MailMerge\ContactsPerDocument
ContactsPerDocument: DWORD 100=100 contacts per document; 25=25 contacts per
document, etc.
Applies to: Output to file and output to printer.

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Forms Conversion
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SalesLogix\Architect]
"AllowFormConversions"=dword:00000001

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Compare Utility
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SalesLogix\Architect\ManagePlugins]
"ShowCompare"="1"
"CompareApp"="C:\\Program Files\\Beyond Compare 2\\BC2.exe [file1] [file2]"

I knew you'd come up trumps Mike! Thanks for these :-)

All is good here - very busy on lots of Sage 200 and the odd 1000 project and of course SLX! I spoke to Tom last week (he's got 3 weeks gardening leave the lucky soandso).

The stats for facebook have gone down dramatically now

Out of interest Ben how does BDE support work, do they seperate each product per team or do they have one team that supports the lot?