Budget Details Fields
The following field information is intended to assist those who design reports for Sage 50 using Crystal Reports.
Filename: BDDETAIL.DAT
BDDETAIL.DAT is the budget details file. It stores the user-defined details for each entry in the Budget (BUDGET.DAT) table. 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 BDDETAIL.DAT.
Indexes and Their Uses
BDDETAIL.DAT has two keys, as follows:
0 = By Budget GUID, by Account GUID
1 = By Account GUID
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 Details table to the Budget table. | |
| AccountGUID | UBinary | GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) used for linking Budget Details table to the Chart of Accounts table. | |
| Period0 | Float | Total amount in the account budgeted for each period. | |
| Period1...Period55 (55 periods) | Float |