The GoldMine Blog - Tips, Tricks & More

Alarms in GoldMine are great!  They remind us to make our calls, show up on time for appointments, and get things done!

 
When scheduling an activity with an alarm, you’ll notice GoldMine sets the default “Alarm Lead Time” to 10 minutes before the activity is set to occur.  This can be changed on an activity-by-activity basis but you also have the ability to change the default lead time.

 
Go to Tools | Options (Edit | Preferences in GoldMine 7 & Below) and select the Alarms tab and change the Alarms default lead time to whatever suites you!
 

P.S. - For All The Moms Out There!

 

 

 

If you were use to kicking off Automated Processes or some other automated set of keystrokes upon first logging into GoldMine, you'll realize quickly that stopped working in GoldMine Premium Edition.

... you'd use something like k:\goldmine\gmw.exe /u:user /p:password /m:macronumber

Here's a free way to get around that.  

Open up Notepad and copy and paste this code:

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "k:\goldmine\gmw.exe /u:username /p:password"
Do Until Success = True
    Success = objShell.AppActivate("GoldMine")
    Wscript.Sleep 1000
Loop
objShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"
WScript.Sleep 30000
objShell.SendKeys "%T"
WScript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "E"
WScript.Sleep 1000
objShell.SendKeys "S"

Then save the file as "launchgm.vbs".  Double-clicking on it or putting it in your Windows Startup folder will launch GoldMine, login, wait 30 seconds, then type Alt-T, wait 10 seconds, type E, wait 10 seconds then type S.