Recently I have been working on a tool to automatically create PDF documents using ProForm Classic as an additional option for my ProUtil suite of products. It is designed to allow a Title Agency using ProForm Standard or Enterprise to quickly and easily create PDF documents from their system.
Fixing ProForm Classic SQL PFWIN-028
Recently a client upgraded their ProForm Classic Standard installation from MDB to SQL. They have a terminal Server which wasn't included in the update as only IT people use it. ProForm was coming up saying it could not find a unknown file relating to the databases, the error was PFWIN-028. Looking at the information in odbcad32.exe 32 bit or 64 bit showed no visible issues.
Closers aren’t exempt employees
A title company in Nebraska has agreed to pay $92,782 to 24 workers in back pay after the U.S. Department of Labor checked them out. The Labor folks found violations for overtime and record-keeping. They concluded that a closer is not an exempt employee.
What is a UCD or Uniform Closing Dataset and why do I care?
The UCD is a definition of data elements, like name, or address, used during the settlement process. It will allow the necessary automations between title companies and lenders coming along with the new Settlement Disclosure.
How much does SoftPro Live cost to run
With the emphasis in protecting NPI (Non-Public Personal Information). I've been hearing a lot about secure document and information delivery. So naturally SoftPro Live has been a focus of conversation. The initial price isn't too bad (Call SP). Determining ongoing costs became the most questioned item. So what started in Excel, visited Google docs, then finally ended up a webpage on SoftProAgent to calculate the ongoing costs of using SoftPro Live in your agency. Check it out, let me know if you find it useful.
How to overlay data into a ProForm file for Prompts Dialog items
Sometimes we get new documents which require the same default information to be put in the Prompts Dialog of ProForm Classic. (Standard or Enterprise) The Default template can be used to fill out those new items on new files, but what do you do with the files in the pipeline. After proper priming, SoftPro defined Prompts can be filled out from a .PXT overlay file.
Outlook 2010 autocomplete list nickname .nk2 is gone
Outlook 2010 took the old *.nk2 files and stuffed them into a cache which is a hidden mailbox message. That all sounded good to me, the nk2 files were a pain, I looked forward to a slick management interface in EMC or at least the EMS. None was to be found, but there is a way, albeit slow processing the whole process takes a few minutes on a slow computer.
