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QAD's .NET UI Updates: Browse, Guide Me, and More!

Explore the latest features and tools in QAD's .NET UI update including comparative browse search criteria, guide me plug-in, message box functionality, and more. Learn how to enable and set up QAD's Guide Me and customize your UI experience.

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QAD's .NET UI Updates: Browse, Guide Me, and More!

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  1. What’s New in QAD’s .NET UI?Browse Updates, Guide Me, and more! Stacy Elwood, BravePoint MWUG September 2010

  2. Agenda • Introduction • Brief Overview • New features in Browses • Guide Me • Message Box • The ‘Gory’ Details • How to enable & setup QAD Guide Me • How to enable/disable QAD Message Box • Other new features • Questions and Answers • Next Steps

  3. “Do more, with less” “I need a quick report” “What am I supposed to enter in this screen?” Internal Communication – Streamlining the process Brief Overview: Challenges

  4. “Do more, with less” New Comparative Browse Search Criteria makes exception reporting easier “I need a quick report” Export Browses directly to a formatted report “What am I supposed to enter in this screen?” “Guide Me” puts Field Help at your fingertips Internal Communication – Streamlining the process QAD Inbox & Workflow Brief Overview: New Tools to Help

  5. Search Criteria Compare to other fields System automatically determines which fields are the same data type Relative Date Formats (released in .NET 2.8) Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday, This Month, This Quarter, etc. What’s New in Browses?

  6. Search Criteria Examples: Sales/Customer Service Price < Cost Due Date > Required Date Qty Shipped > Qty Invoiced Accounts Payable Expected Date > Due Date Qty Received <> Qty Invoiced Due Date = Today Production Qty Complete < Qty Ordered Actual Run Time > Standard Run Time Due Date < Today Accounts Receivable Qty Shipped <> Qty Invoiced Amount Paid < Amount Due What’s New in Browses? (c’td)

  7. Actions / Export options Export to CSV What’s New in Browses? (c’td)

  8. Actions / Export options Report* * Note: Requires Report Engine(QAD 2009 + above or retrofit) What’s New in Browses? (c’td)

  9. Actions / Export options Report (ctd) What’s New in Browses? (c’td)

  10. Actions / Export options Report (ctd) (Summaries) What’s New in Browses? (c’td)

  11. Actions / Export options Report (ctd) (Summaries) What’s New in Browses? (c’td)

  12. Displays Field Help as a Tool Tip (includes custom field help) QAD “Guide Me”

  13. New Message Box QAD Message Inbox & Workflow

  14. New Message Box (c’td) Workflow – Set Browse Criteria, Choose Workflow QAD Message Inbox & Workflow

  15. New Message Box (c’td) Workflow – Choose Recipient(s) QAD Message Inbox & Workflow

  16. New Message Box (c’td) Workflow – Write a new message QAD Message Inbox & Workflow

  17. New Message Box (c’td) Workflow – Send Workflow – Recipient gets New Message Notification when they log in QAD Message Inbox & Workflow

  18. New Message Box (c’td) Workflow – Open Inbox QAD Message Inbox & Workflow

  19. New Message Box (c’td) Workflow – Click on Browse hyperlink Workflow – Browse opens with criteria selected QAD Message Inbox & Workflow

  20. How to enable QAD “Guide Me” How to disable QAD Messages (or any plug-in) The ‘Gory’ Details

  21. Guide Me plug-in is disabled by default Note: As of this presentation, the Guide Me plug-in may require some manual intervention for use with QAD Standard Edition, since by default the properties are not in the client-session.xml file. Affected parameters: guideMe.Enabled - Enables or disables Guide Me feature. guideMe.Debug - Displays unresolved tokens and enables browser context menu. Default: False guideMe.ShowDelay - Delay in milliseconds before the ToolTip is displayed. Default: 500 guideMe.HideDelay - Delay in milliseconds before the ToolTip is hidden. A value of zero indicates the ToolTip is not hidden until the mouse leaves the control region. Default: 0. guideMe.Animation - Enables and disables tooltip animation affects. When set to true, this ensures that the Guide Me screen is displayed gradually on the screen, instead of immediately displaying and disappearing. Default: true How to enable QAD Guide Me

  22. All users: Edit the client-session.xml file Certain users: Add a parameter to the shortcut path on each client – (guideme.enabled:true) How to enable QAD Guide Me (c’td)

  23. New QAD Messaging enabled by default for QAD 2010 SE (eB2.1 SP10+) and QAD 2010 EE Edit client-bootstrap.xml <!-- A plugin deployed on the client that should not be initialized. Multiple plugins may be disabled by repeating this configuration. [plugin key] (bootstrap only)--> <!-- for eB2.1 SP10+ no change is needed below --> <disable>qad.plugin.messaging2</disable> Note: For releases prior to QAD 2010, refer to the .NET UI 2.9.1 Release Bulletin for how to enable or disable the QAD Messaging or other relevant plug-ins. How to disable QAD Message Inbox

  24. Restrict Configurable Screens by Domain By default, Configured Screens set up in one domain are available and applied to all domains. Restrict access to templates for each environment by setting the configByDomain parameter in setting.dat in the <QAD>/com/<UI>/mfgpro directory Configurable Screens Report (36.20.10.17) Lists all programs/screens with configured templates Details include which security groups run the template as well as what has been changed Other New Features:

  25. Multiple Attachment Areas Allows you to attach documents to multiple fields and/or frames inside a function, instead of just one Quick Search (released in .NET 2.8) Enables a search across multiple fields and multiple browses. Examples: Search for a Customer PO in both Sales Order Browse and Invoice History Browse at the same time Search for a description in both pt_desc1 and pt_desc2 QADSH Shell URL command line Enables a command line to allow reports to be run in a similar way to running browses. Other New Features: (c’td)

  26. Questions?

  27. .NET UI 2.9.1 is compatible with eB2.1 SP4 and above, both Standard Edition & Enterprise Edition .NET UI is available free of charge if you’re current on QAD Maintenance .NET UI can run simultaneously with CHAR and GUI sessions To install a new version of .NET UI in a test environment, install Tomcat in a new directory and use a different port than the production environment! Next Steps… The More You Know…

  28. Thank You! Stacy Elwood selwood@bravepoint.com

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