http://kb.actforadvisors.com en-us http://kb.actforadvisors.com ActiveKB NX support@act4advisors.com Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:08:33 EDT 20 http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=238 Act4Advisors Installation Instructions (READ CAREFULLY) Step A. Close ACT and download the installation file http://downloads.act4advisors.com/A4A3.578wsSetup.exe save file to desktop ... Scott Abboud Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:37:08 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=235 When running Global Age Update, you get the error:"The calculated field exceeds 3 characters."You then may receive this error:"The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulte ... Scott Abboud Mon, 05 Jan 2015 15:55:19 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=177 Act4Advisors Installation Instructions (READ CAREFULLY) Step A. Close ACT and download the installation file http://downloads.act4advisors.com/A4A3.578wsSetup.exe save file to desktop ... Scott Abboud Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:42:14 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=138 After updating or reinstalling your ACT! software, you get the message "Error loading layout". This error only affects Act4Advisors layouts and not stock ACT! layouts. To temporarily get to you ... Scott Abboud Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:39:10 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=205 Error: "One or more errors have been detected. Place your mouse on the red error indicator(s) to display the error message(s)." Scott Abboud Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:03:40 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=191 ACT! uses MS SQL as its database engine. SQL databases restrict the size of the tables that hold the data. Table size is a sum of the size of the fields in the table. The max table size i ... Scott Abboud Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:59:28 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=118 Possible Fix 1 : Do not user .pad file to open ACT!. Please use the ACT! by Sage shortcut.Open ACT! by Sage and cancel the login. Go to File, Open Database, and locate your database i.e. Advis ... Scott Abboud Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:43:59 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=184 Resolution: This is a time out in a call to the SQL Server database. The workaround is to adjust the timeouts using the ACTDiag (or ACT7Diag or ACT8Diag) utility using the Tools/Adjust ACT! Timeou ... Scott Abboud Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:54:33 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=182 Step 1: Locate the folder The folder location is stored in the registry in the following key; Outlook 97 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Outlook\Security Outlook 98 ... Scott Abboud Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:09:41 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=113 Compatible with ACT! by Sage 2008 (10.03) and 2009 (11.01 with Hotfix)Instructions: 1. Start by backing up your database. File > Backup > Database 2. After backing up, close ACT! 3. ... Scott Abboud Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:28:36 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=164 Please do all items in this article to resolve the Internet Explorer Script Error issue.Part 1. An Error Occurred in the Script on the page.URL: http://kb.actforadvisors.com/loadpanel.php?Panel= ... Scott Abboud Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:27:42 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=10 After updating or reinstalling your ACT! software, you get the message "Error loading layout". This error only affects Act4Advisors layouts and not stock ACT! layouts. To temporarily get to you ... Scott Abboud Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:53:30 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=122 This error message should happen with ACT! by Sage 2007 (9.0).Close ACT. Download and Save the attached file at the bottom of the page to your desktop or the desired folder. Open Windows Explor ... Scott Abboud Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:16:46 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=172 Question You are installing ACT! 2010 and receive a blue stop error and the system crashes and loops indefinitely. Answer This issue has been reported to occur in ... Scott Abboud Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:34:57 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=121 Part 1. If you have recently installed ACT! by Sage on a new computer and after opening the shared database over the network the fields are missing, follow the instructions below. Act4Advisor ... Scott Abboud Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:23:04 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=165 Question You attempt to restore an ACT! database when you receieve the following error message: Act.Data.ActDb.ActDbException: Cannot open backup device 'C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Temp\ ... Scott Abboud Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:35:18 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=156 Problem: I'm starting to have birthdates that default to 2029 when I input 1929, as an example. I get an error that says "The Birthdate is in the future, please adjust". And when I try to do t ... Scott Abboud Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:36:49 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=155 Close ACT. Download the attached file at the bottom of the page.Copy the 4Advisors.dll to the folder C:\Program Files\ACT\Act for Windows\Plugins In the Plugins folder, find and delete the file ... Scott Abboud Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:03:05 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=125 Close ACT. Download the attached file at the bottom of the page.Copy the 4Advisors.dll to the folder C:\Program Files\ACT\Act for Windows\Plugins In the Plugins folder, find and delete the file ... Scott Abboud Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:02:26 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=154 Log in to the machine as an Administrator and enable ACT! to run in Compatibility Mode for Windows XP. Please use all three of the following steps to resolve this issue. Place ACT! in Windows XP ... Scott Abboud Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:18:25 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=128 Act4Advisors Plugin Update Part 1: Download and Run: http://downloads.act4advisors.com/A4Av3ws141Update.exe Open Windows Explore and browse to C:\Program Files\ACT\Act for Windows and open the P ... Scott Abboud Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:46:01 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=50 Question You are attempting to send an e-mail from ACT! (with Outlook as your mail client) when you receive the following error message: "RPC Server not available." Answer There is more than one p ... Scott Abboud Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:59:34 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=129 This was caused when adding items to dropdown menu where an item exceeded the maximum field length for the field. The solution was to reduce the length of the data so that the pick list did not ... Scott Abboud Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:11:19 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=90 Symptoms:You want to increase the size of a field to handle larger amounts of data inside of the field but when trying to do so in the Define Fields area in ACT!, your are given a message : D ... Scott Abboud Thu, 01 May 2008 22:07:55 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=63 Question When previewing or printing Envelopes, Labels or Reports in ACT!, you only receive the first five pages. Answer This issue will occur when the MaxPages property for the envelope, labe ... Scott Abboud Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:49:16 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=62 Question When launching ACT!, you receive a warning from the Internet Connection Firewall built into Windows XP Pro. Answer This warning occurs when the Windows Internet Connection Firewall softwa ... Scott Abboud Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:36:17 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=53 Close ACT on all computers.Go to Start on your computer, Run - type in actdiag and press Enter. Click on the Databases button. Single right mouse click on Advisor30 or your “suspect/lock ... Scott Abboud Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:40:37 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=25 We have had some customers that have not been able to install in the default location of the My Documents. It will give a message that the Folder cannot be written to. If this occurs, just redi ... Scott Abboud Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:59:29 GMT http://kb.actforadvisors.com/questions.php?questionid=13 Error when running the Preferred Mail Address Update "Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of an Object" This error is a generic error generated by Microsoft .NET (the framework that ACT! is ... Scott Abboud Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:01:54 GMT