The GoldMine Blog - Tips, Tricks & More

That limit is the default in GoldMine; however, we can quickly change that!

First, locate your <<username.ini>> file where your GoldMine is installed.  Here, I’ll go to the “K” drive then GoldMine and find chad.ini, i.e. k:\goldmine\chad.ini.

Open that file using Notepad.  Normally double-clicking on the document will automatically open it using Notepad.  Then, find the [GoldMine] Section.

Add the entry:

SQLQueryLimit=100000 … Change the 100,000 to whatever the maximum number of records you want returned.

... and to my readers in Canada & The United States...  Happy Canada Day & Independence Day!

When scheduling an activity in GoldMine, you have the option of ‘Color Coding’ the activity.  The activity can be an appointment, call, action, etc.

GoldMine provides 16 different colors, from the default Blue through black, to help you add meaning and importance to your calendar.  Using all 16 colors would be over whelming, but attaching meaning to a few can help you and your company better know what everyone is doing each day.

We use colors like this:

Blue – Standard Out of the Office Appointment
Magenta – In Office Meeting
Red – Important
Green – Out of Office Appointment more than 1 Hour Away (Take into consideration Travel Time)
Yellow – Personal

So when you see my daily calendar looking like this:

We Know:

• There’s Drive time associated with the first appointment
• The Second is in the office (Be sure it’s picked up and coffee made!)
• The Third is a personal item
• The Fourth is important!

These are just used for an example.  Think about what would make sense for your office and begin using them! 

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Last week was calendar coloring, this week will be priorities… 

 When scheduling any activity, but this makes the most sense for Next Actions, Calls, and Other Actions, you can give the activity a priority rather than time.

Here’s the standard scheduling window…



Type an ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ in the Time field… and…



A prioritized, or timeless, activity shows up on the calendar in the ‘Task’ area.



The activities will be listed in alphabetical order according to the Priority/Time field… As first, Bs second, Cs third, etc.  

FrontRange Solutions is pleased to announce GoldMine Premium Edition 8.0.1 release.  Our goal for this  for this release is to continue to improve product features and functionality for GoldMine Premium Edition.  With  over 120 fixes, many of these product enhancements, most notably email improvements, are attributed directly to you, our partner community.  Thank you for your continued product involvement and candid feedback.  

GMPE 8.0.1 was released to partners on July 5th, 2007.  The release is now available for partner download via NFR site, available to customers via support, and will be packaged and shipped accordingly.  All GoldMine Premium Edition customers have been notified of the 8.0.1 release.

GMPE product improvements include:

- Support for Microsoft Office 2007
- Word and Excel links now are optional components of the main GoldMine installation
- Account Rollup enhancements
- Improved email message handling
- One-button Installer now supports installation directly to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express database.
- GoldMine Premium Edition now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) as well as, Windows Server 2003 R2, Service Pack 2 (SP2).

www.tinyurl.com

Makes those long, messy, URLs like:

http://www.google.com/maps?q=1249+W+Saratoga+St,+Ferndale,+MI+48220,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

Into nice, short, URLs like this:

http://tinyurl.com/ypseac

Have something that you think others will find useful?  Drop me a line at chad at thegmblog.com.

Right from GoldMine’s contact window you can send an email to the current record!  Simply click on the word “E-mail”…

GoldMine will automatically open a new email window where you can compose and send your new email.  

Before attempting though, be sure your outgoing mail server (SMTP) and reply address (Your  email address) are filled out in your preferences.  (Edit | Preferences | Internet).  If you are not sure of these settings check with your IT support or internet service provider.  

Usually this will be all you need to set so just click OK to be done.  However, if your outgoing mail server requires authentication, etc. that can be set under Accounts | Edit | Advanced Options.

If your IT department or ISP says, “No!”…  Check out a service like www.smtp.com which offers very inexpensive outgoing mail ability.

When email is sent from GoldMine it’ll automatically be logged in the History tab – and any reply will still come into your standard mail reader.