Module Maker for ACCPAC

Pieter van der Westhuizen, a professional freelance web & mobile developer and founder of Coalition Software.
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Pieter van der Westhuizen, a professional freelance web & mobile developer and founder of Coalition Software.
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Finally! After years of threatening to do it I finally did:
Module Maker for ACCPAC. Yes, now you can easily create a module in ACCPAC. The application looks like this:

First, you specify the details for the Module, like name, abbreviation, version and company details. Then you specify the paths to various folders, e.g. C++ Bin folder etc.
Also, adding securities for your module is quick and straight forward, so it show up in the ACCPAC Security Groups window:

You can then build the layout of your module using the Layout Builder functionality. An intuitive wysiwig approach makes this easy.
Hit the Build Project button and your new module show up in the ACCPAC activation window:

After Activating it, it shows up in the ACCPAC System Manager:

How easy is that?
Coalition Software isn’t planning to commercialize the product, but if you are interested drop me an email and we can work something out.