Vantage 8 Customization Tips

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You can use Visual Basic .Net. Here's our Ei Help button on the PO Summary
Form:

messagebox.show("Adding Job Material Lines:" _
& vbcrlf & vbcrlf & " - Enter line but leave Mtl at 0 to automatically
create next Job Material." _
& vbcrlf & vbcrlf & " - Or enter Job-Asm-Mtl to retrieve part
information from Job." _
& vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "Due date defaults to two weeks out." _
,"Ei Help")

The "Start" method can be used to execute another program, like Word, Excel,
ProWin32, etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "howelllabs" <nhutchins@...>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 6:16 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Vantage 8 Customization Tips


> > Provide a "Company Help" button where appropriate on the forms to
> > enhance Vantage Help which is geared to the product rather thanyour
> > Company's use of the product.
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> How do you do this? I know how to add a button to the screen but how
> do you have it call something? I am a new to Vantage and
> customization and not sure how to do this, is there any documentation
> out there, are there any books I could/should buy?
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> Also is it possible to like to PDF or Office Document to a button? So
> it opens when I button is pushed?
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Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
> (2) To search through old msg's goto:
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> (3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
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Some tips from Electroimpact's experience:

Save in stages so you can revert to a good one. For example, after
turning off the visibility of a tab and back on in a previous patch,
the customization was munched.

Export the stages to save them outside the database. Otherwise
they're wiped out next time you refresh the data from v6. Yes, you have
to reset them in Menu Maintenance.

Before changing grid layouts and column widths, check the Base
Customization flag. This allows you to set up Personalization
defaults. But remember to Save Layouts for them to be saved into the
customization file.

Provide a "Company Help" button where appropriate on the forms to
enhance Vantage Help which is geared to the product rather than your
company's use of the product.
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> Provide a "Company Help" button where appropriate on the forms to
> enhance Vantage Help which is geared to the product rather thanyour
> Company's use of the product.

How do you do this? I know how to add a button to the screen but how
do you have it call something? I am a new to Vantage and
customization and not sure how to do this, is there any documentation
out there, are there any books I could/should buy?

Also is it possible to like to PDF or Office Document to a button? So
it opens when I button is pushed?