Sure, there are lots of bugs in Kinetic, no argument whatsoever.
But I had an aha moment just now, and I thought this was mighty sharp.
The main screens in Kinetic all start out with the list of top X recent things - like sales orders with the highest ID. OK cool. And capping the initial dataset at 100 rows is a good move.
But the aha today was to slap a filter on this baby. This saves so many steps!
Example: I wanted to find a random sales order to a “customer” who is really a supplier of ours. On rare occasion we sell stuff back to them (not as a DMR).
Old way of finding this info:
- Open Sales Order Entry/tracker
- Click search button
- Click Customer search button
- Type what I HOPE the customer’s name begins with
- Click Search (this is in the customer search inside the order search)
- Maybe find it; click the customer row
- Click OK
- Click Search in the Order search
- Click the one I want
- Click OK
New way:
(Step zero: put the filters on that grid and save the layout for the future)
- Open Sales Order Entry/tracker
- Type any portion of that customer’s name in the appropriate column header
- Click the link on the order I want
I like this.