Automation for Actinic: Automating multi-site Quickbooks/Sage link
How to use Automation for Actinic with multiple Actinic sites with QuickBooks Pro and Sage Line 50
If you use Automation for Actinic to export your orders from different Actinic sites and you want to import these into different accounts in either QuickBooks Pro or Sage Line 50 you can use the following approach to accomplish this:
1. Set-up all the different profiles for your Actinic sites in the Actinic Link software.
2. For each site do the following:
a. Start the Link software
b. Select the profile for that site.
c. Close down the Link software
d. Copy either C:\Program Files\Actinic Link\QuickBooks UK\QBProfiles.ini, for Quickbooks or C:\Program Files\Actinic Link\Sage Line 50\SageProfilesExport.ini, for Sage to C:\Program Files\MoleEnd\Automation for Actinic\V7\<Sitename>.ini. Where <Sitename> is the name of the Actinic site, e.g. site1.ini.
3. Within the Actinic Order Processing tab (in Business Settings) enter the executable to Run After Export (either QuickbooksExport.exe or ActToSage.exe)
4. Within the Automation for Actinic Order Processing Options tab tick Run Program At Start of Processing.
Enter the following program to run for Quickbooks
Copy "C:\Program Files\MoleEnd\Automation for Actinic\V7\<Site>.ini" "C:\Program Files\Actinic Link\QuickBooks UK\QBProfiles.ini"
Enter the following program to run for Sage
Copy "C:\Program Files\MoleEnd\Automation for Actinic\V7\<Site>.ini" "C:\Program Files\Actinic Link\Sage Line 50\SageProfilesExport.ini"
You should tick the When the Program exits option.
5. Tick Run Actinic Export.
6. Tick Run Program At End of Processing and enter the following
ME_TaskKiller.exe -B <Window>
Again you should tick the When the Program exits option.
7. For more details on setting up the Task Killer see the Automation for Actinic help. This is used to close the Actinic Link software once it has completed.