Fw: User-defined fields in MAPICS

Forwarded for Dale:

----- Original Message -----
From: <DaleGindlesperger@fft-inc.com>
To: <mapics-l-admin@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: User-defined fields in MAPICS


> This is a general question/comment for the thread members.
>
> We use "user-defined fields" in the product structure files and other
> files to help support non-MAPICS functionality, such as union information
> requirements (labor standard type, etc).  When orders are released, the
> user-defined fields don't go over from the master files to the order files
> (ie., User Code A in PSTDTL doesn't go to MODATA).  It seems odd to me
> that we are forced to write blaster programs to load the user fields to
> the "work" files from the "master" files and either have them as triggers
> or insert them into the CLs.
>
> Here's where it is a question as well as a comment.  Have I been missing
> something in MAPICS that you can tell the system to copy the user fields
> over in order release and such?  Or is this a "functioning as designed"?
> If so, does it seem odd to you good people on the thread that they don't
> go over?
>
> I was going to write this up as an enhancement request, but if I am the
> only person that wants user fields to copy from the "master" to the "work"
> files, or if it will mess up other people's enhancements, I probably won't
> bother.
>
> Any comments one way or the other are welcome....
>
> Dale @ Fleetwood
>