2012-02-10

CaseWare builder mode / Enable special features

This is going to be similar to the previous post, except the following method allows one to enable the special features on the financial statements or enter "Builder mode".

NOTE: This might be very specific to my firm's provider of CaseWare templates!

In the uncompressed CaseWare client folder (default is C:\Program Files\CaseWare\Data\$Client$\) there is a file with the following name of "$Client$CV.dbf". Replace $Client$ with what your target caseware file is called.

Please remember to backup all files before editing them!
Open the "$Client$CV.dbf" with a competent text editor (I suggest notepad++) and search for the first occurrence of "CONSULTING" (it should appear only once in the file). To the right of "CONSULTING" there should be some white space (approximately 12 spaces) and then two capital letters and a number (either 0 or a 1).
Here is what it should look like (I added the italics and bold):
CONSULTING            NN0
The two letters in italics might differ with yours, which is expected.
The single number in bold is what we will change. Change this to "1" so that the portion of the text looks like this:
CONSULTING            NN1

Save the file and reopen your financial statements. Now the extra options should be available.

Hope this aides in the formatting of your CaseWare financial statements!

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