I frequently run several Company Data Files in a day, I'm sure this isn't unusual. However a number of my companies have very similar names. I was wondering if there is a setting that will change the background colour or change the colour scheme of the Command Centre to make it easier to differentiate between to company files quickly.
I am running MYOB AccountRight Plus 2011.
Thank you
Jen
"Distinguishing Multiple Company Data Files"
MYOB should be able to have a way of being able to distinguish between data files.
This would be of tremendous help to those who work with multiple files.
Can we please get this done?
We run more than one business from the same office. This can be a tad confusing at times. Also, we sometimes have an old datafile open so that we can look up an invoice from 2 years back or similar; it's not unknown for us to then start putting a current invoice into an old datafile.
The solution? The facility to change the colour scheme in each datafile so they are easily identifiable. If the trading company came up with red colours, the family trust with yellow, and the asset company in greens, we'd instantly know which one we should be working on.
Is it a possiblity?
Sue
When using MYOB the background colour of the screen needs to be a different colour for each company file. This should be able to be changed to assist in identifying which company you are working on, as a trigger when you have many company files with many staff using each company file, this would reduce the amount of incorrect entries in the incorrect company.
Example:-
Clearwater - back ground RED so you know its the test company
Actual Company - background gray
Additional Company 1 - back ground green
Additional Company 2 - back ground blue etc
Excellent suggestion.
I have 3 companies set up in MYOB.
When all 3 are open, it is difficult to know which is which on the tool bar. It would be really helpfull to be able to change the grey screen to other colours so that you dont put the data into the wrong company which Ihave done many times.
Thanks PMO1968 you read my mind I was thinking about this the other day as I too keep posting things in the wrong files if I have more than one open dangerous :smileyfrustrated: Would be good to even be able to change the colour of the MYOB icon on the toolbar so when it is on the toolbar you open the correct one.
How easy would it be to change the background colouring of the main page and/or Command Centre for each company? This would be particularly helpful for Partners, and Clients who have multiple files open at a time to differentiate which files are which so there is no confusion.
First thing I wanted to do once I started using two companies. Would be great to change the 'skin' of myob to a different colour to distinguish each company easily.
Having this feature of changing the display so as to distinguish between multiple company data files could be used as a marketing feature and point of difference for MYOB. This is a feature that a number of Xero users have requested, and though Xero have acknowledged the request it still doesn't seem to have been implemented by them. Definitely worth thinking about, which software house will get there first?
Yes please - changing background colours for different company files would be very useful. Even having the ability to add a small company logo in the top right hand sceen would be a unique feature.
Can we please get this idea going. It's 7 years later, surely this would be an option now
Same problem, it would really help if I could have a different colour for each company
twoway
Come on MYOB, listen to the consumer! We've been asking for this since 2012, surely it can't be that difficult. You're happy to take our money (ridiculous amounts of money when we run multiple companies) but not willing to make using your products a little easier for us!
100% agree with this thread - changing background colours for different company files would be extremely useful and/or having the ability to add a company logo in the top right hand sceen to identify said files. Also agree wholeheartedly with PattyW17 that MYOB are happy to take (extort!) an exorbitant amount of money from us on an onging basis now that "sortware licencing" is the norm (remember the days when one could make a one-off purchase of software?), but refuse to make such a basic and easily implemented modification to the program. And we are yet again reduced to mere consumers at the mercy of corporations who don't care about anything except their bottom line.....
We do the same, and with multiple screens it would help to deferenciate the files clearly.
