Unable to change the group for a control

Kinetic ERP
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A huge disclaimer I am very new to Epicor, so if this is a stupid question I apologise.

Some background, we are migrating E10 to Kinetic 2023. We will still be using the old style forms to start with. We have a heavily customised sales order entry screen and when it migrated the layout went to pot.

So I need to move some controls around, I thought I could drag and drop, doesnt work. I thought there might be an option to change the group, I can not see one. Ive looked at the XML editor data and cannot see a node for group.

What am I missing, all I really need to do is move a control to a different group.

Thank you for your time and patience.

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Hi Richard,

I really wish there was a way to drag and drop to change the groups! You can do this with the XML editor though, you’ll need to lookup the ‘Key’ for the group control and set that as the ‘ParentControlKey’ for all controls you want to be in that group. It’s a bit manual, but it works.

Hope this helps,

Nathan

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Hi Nathan

“00B35629-A270-47c4-A6F3-6F14D2E7895E” is one of the fields which I need to move. I have looked at the data and see these properties for my field

  <Properties>
    <FormsID>SalesOrderForm</FormsID>
    <ControlName>eshFirmRelease</ControlName>
    <Key>00B35629-A270-47c4-A6F3-6F14D2E7895E</Key>
    <PropertyName>ChildIndex</PropertyName>
    <PropertyValue>1</PropertyValue>
    <Company />
    <Plant />
    <DcdUserID />
    <GroupID />
    <PropertiesID />
  </Properties>

I do have a controls section in the xml but that Id is not present. I have tried adding in

<ParentControlKey>006caf0c-d74d-4ec1-9d92-43eda1f2af96</ParentControlKey>

to the properties node.

Any ideas?

Thank you

4

Hi Richard,

I tend to use the ‘Custom Controls’ and ‘Custom Properties’ tabs to modify these rather than ‘XML View’. Can you find it in there?

Is eshFirmRelease a custom control or standard?

Thanks,

Nathan

5

Thanks Nathan,

I believe this one is standard as it is not present in the other two tabs you mentioned.

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Hi Richard,

I’ve not had much luck with changing standard controls, I tend to leave them alone or make them invisible in favour of custom controls. One suggestion would be to set the control’s parent in code using a customisation. Not tried it myself though!

Sorry I can’t be more helpful,

Nathan