The GoldMine Blog - Tips, Tricks & More

Ever wanted to find someone by the contact's creation date?

“I know I created them yesterday, what was their name!?!?”

Here’s how:  First go to Lookup | Indexed Fields | Accountno.

Accountno is how GoldMine uniquely identifies each contact record.  For our purposes the first 6 characters are important as they denote the creation date in a YYMMDD format.  So, for a record created on June 1st of 1999 you'd type in 990601.

Year 2000 posed a challenge and to maintain continuity in the ordering FrontRange decided to use an A0 to represent 2000, A1 to represent 2001, A6 to represent 2006, etc.  So for a record created on June 15, 2006 we'd type in A60615.

Cool eh?  I don't use this a whole lot but there are those days that this is a life saver!

Happy GoldMining!

I love the GoldMine Taskbar, because you can put practically anything on there from GoldMine menu actions to document links, applications, and web sites.

What I find annoying is that if I put a web site on the TaskBar when I use the link it replaces the web site I currently have up.  To get around this, when adding a web site link to the TaskBar add an external application instead.  Start with a Right Click | Add New Item to the TaskBar as you always would.

Use C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe for the Application, C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\ as the start directory and then in the command link place your web site’s URL with double quotes around it.

This example will open CNN.com in a new browser window.