From time to time our Rate tables need updated, which sometimes brings a pretty high stress level. Here is a method which will allow new underwriter rates to be applied to SoftPro ProForm Classic preventing the update from deleting all the current information. SoftPro distributes a .txt file which the lkupimex.exe utility uses to apply lookup table updates. How nice it is to test the new rates before everyone is using them.
ProForm can't find it's databases, an ODBC connectivity test passes, but when ProForm is started, it throws an error. The test system is a small network of Terminal Server and a few Windows 7 machines, a new Windows 7 64 bit machine was installed. ProForm Classic 12.2 is throwing a PFWIN-028 error message, cannot initialize databases. Starting ProForm as Administrator using this registry entry to allow drive mappings to occur works fine, but requires the user to click an extra dialog box on one computer but not the rest of the network.
What do you do when you need to resend items to your underwriter when using the SoftPro ProForm tool eProRemit? Do you create the file manually in Excel? Manual no more, ReProRemit takes a comma delimited list of ProForm Files, resetting the system so eProRemit will pickup the files and create the transmission file for the records you need.
When you are selecting partners, sometimes it's nice to know their location in relation to the property location. ProUtil ZipDistance is the tool for the job. It displays a sorted lookup table of vendors by approximate air miles to that vendor. Double clicking on a vendor brings up a Browser window with live directions from the vendor to the property.
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.
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.
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.
