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USER CONFERENCE 2013CONFIGURABLES May 22th 2013

MARTIN LINDSTRAND, BUSINESS CONSULTANT

martin.lindstrand@ifsworld.com

Hej och välkomna

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CONFIGURABLES – CREATING POSSIBILITIES AGENDA

Custom Fields & Custom Events

Persistent & Read Only

Information Cards

Basics

Architecture

Conditional formatting

Custom Menus

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CUSTOM FIELDS & EVENTS

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CUSTOM FIELD USING REFERENCEREAD ONLY

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CUSTOM FIELDS USING EXPRESSIONREAD ONLY - ADD NEW FIELD DISCOUNT AND USE IT ON A CO

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CUSTOM FIELDS USING SELECTREAD ONLY

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CUSTOM FIELDSHIDE/REMOVE FIELD.

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CUSTOM FIELDS VS INFORMATION CARDSA DISTINCTIONCUSTOM FIELDS

Support business process needs

INFORMATION CARDS

Improved usability with user configuration

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CUSTOM FIELDS & CUSTOM EVENTSPREVENT THE USER FROM DOING WRONG…

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CUSTOM FIELDS & CUSTOM EVENTSPREVENT THE USER FROM DOING WRONG…

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CUSTOM FIELDS BASICS

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CUSTOM FIELDSCONFIGURATION FIELD POSSIBILITIES

PERSISTENT

Change and store values

String, Number, Date

Enumeration (Custom Enumeration and any existing Enumeration)

READ ONLY

Reference (easier)

Expression (faster)

Select (more flexible)

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ARCHITECTURE

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CUSTOM FIELDSARCHITECTURE

DOES NOT AFFECT CORE

Custom Fields are stored in “shadow LUs”

TableX_TAB

TableX_CFT

Package X_API

Package X_CFP View X_CFVView X

Master LU objects Custom Fields LU objects

Rowkey

Logical Unit X

IFS Client

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CUSTOM FIELDSINTERACTION WITH OTHER CONCEPTS/FEATURES

Custom Menu

Custom Events (some limitations)

Custom Field Columns in existing “List Of Values” dialogs

Search Dialog and Saved Searches

Conditional Formatting

Output

Quick Reports

IFS Reporting (SP1)

NOTE!!! No business logic apart from Custom Events can interact with Custom Fields

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SECURITY

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CUSTOM FIELDSSECURITY

Granted as any other IFS object

One Presentation Object per Custom Fields LU

Don’t add sensitive columns as Custom Fields (Social security number, credit card numbers, salary etc.)

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IMPORT/EXPORT

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CUSTOM FIELDSIMPORT/EXPORT

Import/Export functionality included

Create Custom Fields in your Test environment

Export to file

Import in your Production environment

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CUSTOM MENU

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CUSTOM MENUSETUP SHORTCUTS TO REPORTS

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CUSTOM MENUACTION TYPES & ENABLE IN FORM

Open Forms

Open Quick Reports

Open other application, documents, web pages

Open connected documents

Open stored procedures

Open PL/SQL scripts