RE: Item descriptions

However you decide to handle item comments, the COM files provide a great
place to enter them.  The most important file is MBEDCPP - Comment Xref to
Item.  The key is item number and it tells you the comment number it is
stored under.  You can then look up MBAXREP - Comment Lines directly for the
text.  The screens are already written so no work required to start using
them, plus they can print automatically on all the COM reports.

To include the text on Mapics reports, you are potentially looking at a lot
of modifications or rewriting of the reports.  May I suggest the Mapics
report writer, Info WorkPlace (IWP)?  IWP can cut development costs of
reporting by a factor of 5-10 times and will eliminate the need to modify
Mapics for every report.  The reports can be run by the user, or included in
batch job processing for automatic execution within a job stream.

See my previous post today, or contact me off list for more info.

Momentum is the developer of Info WorkPlace, JacanaForms and inTuator

Regards,
-Greg
Gregory Novak
Manager North American Technical Services
Momentum Utilities Pty Ltd
(630) 985-1736
gnovak@xxxxxxxxxx
www.jacana.com
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Vidal [mailto:Peter_Vidal@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:15 PM
To: MAPICS ERP System Discussion
Subject: RE: Item descriptions


"So Peter, you had to maintain the Mapics code to get the reports to print 
your descriptions?  Creating the file is the easy part--getting MAPICS to 
see it is the hard part.  Any user exits I'm not aware of? Thanks"

Oh, no.  If we have to list items or something like that , we do not use 
MAPICS' report versions.  However, I want to ask you (maybe you explained 
it before, I am sorry) but: under which circumstances you want this 
additional information to be used?


Peter Vidal 
PALL Corporation / SR Programmer Analyst, IT Development Group
10540 Ridge Rd., Ste 203, New Port Richey, FL 34654-5111
http://www.pall.com

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