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Use Data Path for Reports - As Default/Deploy-ability

Hi

There should be an option available to change the "Use Data Path for Reports" overall datasets, rather than just individually, or at least a tool to facilitate the deployment of this setting to multiple datasets.

Additionally, there should be some option to set this as a standard default.

If Sage is being used in a multiuser environment with multiple workstations, having reports stored in a local location on the C: Drive of each machine isn't really practicle.

Having all the reports for every Sage Dataset you have all access to every other Dataset is a possible risk/problem.
If for example, you have a custom report for COMPANY.001 and a different but similar custom report for COMPANY.002, by default, there is nothing stopping someone from running the wrong report on the wrong company.
Using the path in the dataset itself is surely a better practice and should be standard by default should it not?

Thanks

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  • Jul 2 2021
  • Guest commented
    August 02, 2023 11:37

    Jamie Saul

    Hi Adam, this use data path setting is on a per machine basis, this can be deployed via the Sage.ini with the addition of an entry labelled Usedatapathforreports=1 in the [SG50] section