RE: User-defined fields in MAPICS

Dale -

I'm with you! Especially since you can't "load" data into the MO user fields
without customizing the MO release programs - in that case, what are the
fields there for?

I've written ump-teen IWP MO reports (including a replacement for the labor
tickets and shop packet) so that the data we store in the EPDM Item master
files are visible to the shop floor personnel. But so much for going
"PaperLess."

You write the enhancement request - I'll definately support it!

Cheers - Joan

Joan McCready, IS Manager      phone:  636-479-4499
MetalTek International         fax:  636-479-3399
The Carondelet Division        www.metaltekint.com
8600 Commercial Blvd
Pevely, MO  63070


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Shaw [mailto:daveshaw@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 7:20 PM
To: MAPICS-L
Subject: 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
>

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