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@matigo The problem was when a statement or invoice was printed for just one customer out of many thousands, their address and company name was blank. After reviewing the code that feeds that information to the form engine, it was deemed flawless. So, it had to be something truly dumb on their end that I overlooked.

Our software allows for multiple billing divisions per company database. An obvious feature for different physical locations, etc.

I noticed on the bad account, that the billing division was set to 1 instead of default. Pictured is division 1. Why they created this, I do not know. I cannot easily delete it as it appears in over one million GL journal entries that pertain to payroll. I plan to call them later today and ask who told them to do this and why. Anyway, changing the bad customer's billing division back to default was the fix

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Fighting urge to tear into codebase to track down so obscure and inexplicable a bug that it has taken 16 years to surface. Code that was, until now, so stable that it never needed touched in all of that time. It's something approaching lottery winning odds that data and logic combined in such a way that it even happened.

I'm looking forward to it because I love a good mystery. And it has nothing to do financial calculations. It's merely a report formatting bug.

@matigo As I read this, I am applying finance charges to a select few clients.

// @japchap

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And, I have posted here more in three hours than I have in as many years.

The king of troublesome, btw, is mapping a network-shared Westinghouse label printer. Just throwing that out there.

In a surreal turn of events, remotely mapping ancient Enterprise Linux workstations to a new Kyocera printer went flawlessly with stock PCL drivers. Mapping a Windows 10 box to it with factory drivers, however, proved to be troublesome.

My hometown proposed a sidewalk renovation. Then, nothing really happened with it for a while. Suddenly, it was started, All at once. Causing chaos all through town with road closures and detours.

The funny part is that those proposals happened in, if memory serves, 1981. It has taken them forty-four years to get started. Hopefully, I won't be 102 years old when they are finished.

@matigo How funny. I was about to pull the side off and look.

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@matigo it’s the one on the right. It hasn’t been on in two years. Should be interesting

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Okay. Life update. The company I joined for a six month contract and wound up being there for 25 years? I bought it. Now in the process of shutting it down and moving operations to a newly formed company in my home state of WV. Also teaming up with a client to start an S Corporation for another software project.

I've come to the realization that retirement is never going to happen.