On a UD Form, I have a textbox. The value in that box will be a Part Number. Is there a way to add the standard right-click context menu that appears when you right click in a PartNum textbox anywhere else in Epicor?
This field is not tied to any EpiDataView. The UD does not have any adapters in it, no foreign keys, etc. It is as basic as can be. (it literally consists of only a textbox)
Is this feasible at all?
So, it is not even a UD01 field or anything like that?
I know you can set it on a custom field but it might need to be bound to a table/field in the database. There is a Context Menu field on the Properties. You should just have to fill that in. I’d select a field on a form that has a part number field and copy/paste what that one says into your custom field.
That said, if it’s bound to a field in a table, you can open up Extended Properties and set it there - and then anywhere you call that field, it will always have the Context Menu (Open With) dropdown without having to customize the form. It will also have the added benefit of having that functionality in the grid view as well when you run a BAQ or dashboard.
And I am going to scrap this idea and go about this a completely different way, scrapping the ‘suggestions’ that were given to me by the higher ups.
This brings me to another question which I will open another thread for.
Create an EpiDataView (there are posts on here how to do this) so that it can hold your value then it can have the right extended properties to allow you to set the Like field to Part.PartNum.
It is a better approach than having unbound fields.