Put up a few stories from the old story site.
One of them is new, Hunter Of The Strange.
Also, a few songs went up.
Put up a few stories from the old story site.
One of them is new, Hunter Of The Strange.
Also, a few songs went up.
It was a privilege to attend the “Go For Growth” Sydney Seminar today, where Verne Harnish gave forth his wisdom.
The single most important phrase I heard today was this:
Pulse Faster
Just when you think it’s safe to go out at night.
In Firefox, going to both “http://stuandrews.com” and “http://www.stuandrews.com” reveals what’s in the picture.
In Chrome, going to “http://www.stuandrews.com” does the same thing, although the “http://stuandrews.com” works fine.
I’ve given Google a half-hearted search, but seriously? This is quite bizarre.
And to top it all off, the Uploader (Flash or not) for WordPress Images isn’t working for me. Crunches, but doesn’t actually write the files to the upload directory. My permissions are okay.
Bizarre.
For numbers, for complicated passwords, for remembering how to tie my laces .. I thought I was set.
Unimportant facts drawn from dusty fantasy books in water-damaged carboard boxes at the back corner of old bookshops. Yo.
Living through the memory of equipping that first augmentation in Deus Ex, of taking down an entire level with the mini-crossbow, of trying so very hard to take down Gunther. Aye.
Continue reading “My Memory Is Faulty: A Lesson In Perspective”
It’s been a long time.
Since a lot of things. Like blogging. Like knowing what is going on with my web presence. Like caring about it all.
What galvanised me was that my sites, all of them hosted in one place, started getting Google offside.
“Huh? What buffoonery is this?” I would ask myself as the emails flooded in.
Continue reading “Rebirth, Starting My Websites Over”
Why is it so hard to find information on this topic? It’s a behemoth system, CRM; Word is known the globe over; and Mail Merge is something most folk know about.
There is plenty of information on each of these subjects on their own, but when I began looking for all three together it got a bit frustrating.
What I Wanted To Do
Create a Word Template to be used to print a Quote from within Dynamics CRM.
Goals
Create from scratch.
Use a table for Quote Product items (this was far more obtuse than you would think).
There are a couple of sample templates you can find. I didn’t find them until AFTER I’d gone through a lot of pain. But the pain meant learning, which is good for me.
The image below will show you the result I have at the moment. It’s not great.
The Merge for a Quote will happen on the QUOTE PRODUCT. So always have in mind that the records coming at the template will be for the Quote Product, not the Quote itself (although the Quote information is in there, being a Parent 1:M relationship).
IMPORTANT:
{ IF { MERGEFIELD Quote_ID } <> { someNameForUniqueID } “{ SET someNameForUniqueID { MERGEFIELD Quote_ID } }Information to go at the top of the report/document/whatever.
”}
“{ IF { MERGEFIELD LastItem (this is the actual field name) } = 1 ”Put the information in here
"}
STU’S THOUGHTS FOR WORD MERGE TEMPLATES:
I’ve only been on this since last night, so it’s highly probable I’ve missed some grand fabulous way to achieve the process.
But I thought some other folk my be helped by this information.
Okay. After reading Greg’s column on SMH, “Dean’s Test Dilemma: Form or Reputation”, I figured if he can spend the article talking about how awesome the Reds are (on Form), and pick a “Form” team with a bunch of Tah’s, then why shouldn’t I give forth my own opinion.
My “I’d Like To See That” Wallaby Team:
This is the team I’d like to see have a run at the All Blacks, Springboks, the Irish and anyone one else game enough.
1. (Loose-Head Prop) – Benn Robinson
2. (Hooker) – Tatafu Polatu-Nau
3. (Tight-Head Prop) – Laurie Weeks
4. (Lock) – Nathan Sharpe <VC>
5. (Lock) – Dave Dennis
6. (Blind-Side Flanker) – Matt Hodgson
7. (Open-Side Flanker) – David Pocock
8. (Number 8) – Stephen Hoiles
9. (Scrum-Half) – Will Genia <C>
10. (Fly-Half) – Quade Cooper
11. (Left-Wing) – Digby Ioane
12. (Inside-Center) – Anthony Faingaa
13. (Outside-Center) Rob Horne
14. (Right-Wing) – Drew Mitchell
15. (Fullback) – Adam Ashley-Cooper
Bench: Saia Faingaa, Rocky Elsom, Ben Daley, Matt Giteau, Josh Holmes
Sadly, it’s just not cricket without George.
OH GEORGE, WHERE ART THOU?