DatabaseRobert
Level 4

About 10 years ago I attended the CalCPA conference at LAX (Hilton?), and one of the annual attendee events is "PTTF", or "Paco's Tacos Task Force."  (Eat at the local TexMex, with good margaritas.)  Intuit staff usually attends and frequently picks up the bar tab, so this is a good networking experience.

Bill Whitson was the long-time web presence of Lacerte on the Yahoo!Groups userlist, and he fielded a LOT of questions from me about data handling over the years.  (I was using the raw dBase DBF files, not the more recent ODBC connection.)

He confirmed that I had found the status fields, and the fields corresponding to dates set and who by and so on; these are the few fields in table 1, and the entirety of table 5.

However, he told me that the NAMES THEMSELVES (what you see on the F4/status screen, or on the 'status' tab in Ctrl+O[ptions]) are stored in the Prep file for the company, along with the Preparer names and other info (from that tab, in Options).

This is another binary file, similar to the client tax detail...  but those Prep files are stored in a completely different directory than the client detail are, so I do not believe the ODBC connection will let you see them.

 

Robert