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I. Site News
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II. Articles
1. Control Desk
A control desk is a generic SunSystems facility that allows you to extract selected data from the system. You can then view this data or pass it to another system function for further processing.
For example, control desks are used to:

• extract and display selected transactions to provide inquiries, for example Account Inquiry.
• extract selected transactions and pass them to a printing function, for example to produce account statements, picking lists, sales invoice, or dispatch notes.
• select journals for import from the Ledger Import tables.
• send selected transactions to account allocation for matching or split
• send selected transactions to a payment function

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2. Linking Existing Codes to an Analysis Dimension
A number of useful codes may have already been defined in your SunSystems implementation, if you are using the facilities that require this information. For example, if you are using Order Fulfilment you will have identified all of your inventory items, warehouses and product groups. If so, you can use them as the valid analysis codes for an analysis dimension. Or another example can be a multi -site  customer, where a few customer records from CUS  share the same debtor account in chart of  accounts. The only option available  to  segregate the customer transactions from one another is to use one of the ledger analysis dimensions. Using linkage between existing codes and  analysis dimension Every time you create a new customer  in CUS it will be automatically created as a ledger analysis code.
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3. Voiding a System Generated Payment
Payment Voiding (PV) allows you to cancel or reverse selected payments that have been created by Payment Run (PAY).
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4. SunSystems Deployment Options
The SunSystems  can be deployed in several combinations to utilize the hardware configuration you have at your disposal.
The deployment combinations available are known as Installation Types and these are as follows:

• Stand-alone Installation
• Two Tier Installation
• Three Tier Installation
• Mixed Platform Installation.

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III. Hot Forum Topics
1. 4.2.6 sp10 to SunSystems 5
We will be migrating to version 5 hopefully by the end of the year. We have a 3 tier setup: MS SQL, Citrix Metaframe, and XP Client. I've read through the migration guides here but for those of you that have recently upgraded to version 5 do you have any words of wisdom? Post your thoughts in forum.
2.  Web based dashboard tool
...currently I am thinking about introducing a web based dashboard tool in my organization that will align and focus everyone in the organization on the business issues and will give the dashboard view on the KPIs to executives, to line and department managers.
From technology point of view it should use some business intelligence software, data warehouse with info cubes and web technology as the user interface. We use Vision Exec, and this is an excellent tool, but I want a tool which is accessed by everyone and from everywhere in the organization, I mean from highest-level executives with the top-down approach to the level of ordinary users.   Read more about this

3. Upgrade to Sun6 from Sun4
"Hi
Just thinking about Upgrading to sun 5 - we use sun 426 and although it
looks old it works?
My question is do you think Sun 6 will be worth the wait?
will infor deliver a sun 6
Stephen"
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