Sage 100

Does Sage have a long-standing flaw in the initial installation of Sage 100 where if you do NOT manually select to load demo data during the initial install that there's no easy way to get into the program? The first thing that Sage does is display the ""select company code"" dialog. If you did not select (manually) to load demo data then it would seem you have to uninstall and reinstall. To me, this seems like a flaw - and demo data should be loaded on a fresh installation. What step (other than manually selecting demo data during every initial installation) have I missed?

I thought the first time you launch the program you had to logon as administrator and create a role and user name. You should be able to create a company in company maintenance at the same time you create the initial role(s) and user names(s).

I agree with @DougHiggs I have not run into a problem with the initial open of Sage *if* I set the role to <all> companies. It opens without a company after which I can start the parallel migration.

I was at Sage when they decided to have the installer not auto check the demo companies. any longer (late 3.x). I asked Why because I think demo companies should be auto checked as well. The primary answer was a call came into Support where an end user self upgraded their 3.x to a later 3.x in-place (parallel migration was not an official concept then) and their live company code was ABC which did get overwritten with demo ABC. The other reason was demo data will install demo Sales Tax Codes and Schedules (you know the CA, CA BA, WI,WI MIL) and people called to say ""we didn't set that up why is it there"".