Dates?????

[CraigFL]

When I sign in to Peachtree, the date that shows to the left of the accounting period at the bottom is March 14, 2003. This means I need to change the date in OPTIONS\Change System Date to today's date before I can enter transactions. I also notice that the Nav Aids has a date in the upper left and this also says March 14, 2003 until I change it too.

Any way to have this done automatically? It used to do it automatically in v9.0 for me....

[TheWolf]

Sounds like you have restored a backup into the sample company. Make a backup to your desktop, then create a new company with just a name and restore that backup into this new company. Now reinstall and it will put the sample company data back.

[jhudson]

The above might work, but I think the 'banner' date is independent of the 'Today' date found at the bottom of the screen except when opening a NavAid page.

Check the help re: the default date. Although funky, it seems correct on the sample data.

Not real elegant, but, if you want to have the current system date show in the banner of the page (again it has nothing to do with the operation of PT, just displays a date) you can kludge html so the current system date always shows on the NavAid page:

Find banner.htm in the PTToday folder (probably below the PT app folder). Make a copy so as to keep the original. Edit banner.htm, find the function "ShowDate()" and make the line:

dtPTTodayDate = top.oPTTOday.PTTodayDate read:
dtPTTodayDate = date() 'top.oPTTOday.PTTodayDate.

You'll never be able to change the date on the banner using the poppedup calendar when you click the date, but the objective was to show the system date on the navAid page.

Obviously, if you want to make the date respond to the PT calendar object you could write some more code, but this is a quick and dirty solution.

Good luck,

[TheWolf]

Unfortunately the date that the original poster gave is the date that will show if you restore ANY backup into the sample companies.

This is also a common mistake that many of my customers have made in the past.

[CraigFL]

Unfortunately this wasn't a mistake.... After I converted my software to v. 2003, there was no way that I could find to start the company conversion process unless I restored it into the sample company. Since I needed to be running on Monday AM, I had to do it.

[TheWolf]

If you find yourself in this kind of crunch again, just select new company, enter a name and click next until it opens. This will give you a shell from which to restore into.

[oldenbc]

I had the same problem with the date. Your solution of setting up a new company solved that problem. However, I have a new problem.. In the Fixed Assets section, when I try to calculate depreciation, it shows that depreciation was last calculated through 3/31/2003 (for the financial book). How can I change the date?

Also when I run the Asset Listing Report, it shows the period ending date of 3/31/2003. Is there any way to change the as of date for reporting? I see that option for some of the other asset reports, but not for the Asset Listing Report.