Budget Fields
The following field information is intended to assist those who design reports for Sage 50 using Crystal Reports.
Filename: BUDGET.DAT
BUDGET.DAT is the budgets file. The user-defined values for this file are stored in the Budget Details (BDDETAIL.DAT) file. Budget information has been moved to these two files from the CHART.DAT (Chart of Accounts) file.
- To add Sage 50 chart of account fields to your Crystal reports, select BUDGET.DAT.
Indexes and Their Uses
BUDGET.DAT has three keys, as follows:
0 = By GUID
1 = By Budget ID
2 = By Budget Description
Fields
The following table shows the fields available in the BUDGET.DAT file and includes the type and size in number of bytes of each field.
| Field Name | Type | Size | Comment | 
|---|---|---|---|
| BudgetGUID | UBinary | GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) used for linking Budget table. | |
| LastUpdateCounter | Integer | This increases incrementally when the record is changed. | |
| BudgetID | ZString | 30 | Identifier of the budget. | 
| BudgetDescription | ZString | 50 | Description of the budget. | 
| Notes | ZString | 250 | Notes attached to the budget. |