Every IFS Applications user may have forgotten some useful little bits of functionality - or never discovered it. Janet Apollo shares some great tips.
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Too often when you use IFS Applications, you forget things you used to know because you don’t use them day-to-day. Here are some of my best tips. If you learn one new thing from this, then share those tips with your colleagues.
This is the ability to show all users a message they’ll see when they log in. It’s set up in the Solution Manager and the user has to cancel out of it. It’s a great way to warn people about back-ups or link them to a web page.
In System Options, you can change you text options to a more visible color – this is great for screenshots. It can make information sing more clearly.
In every numeric field, you can do calculations. Just use the standard operator notation: + – / *.
It’s a line along the bottom with useful information – you can customize and resequence it. Right-hand click and a contextual menu item allows you to edit it.
In an IFS overview table, you can configure an output channel to send your highlighted lines as an e-mail. Useful if you’re on the phone and you want to send something to a colleague. This is true of any table, anywhere in the system.
Again, just configure an Output Channel to point to your office tool, like Outlook.
Every form you have in IFS can be made object-aware. The setup is form-specific and the objects you can attach will be determined by the versions you are running. IFS Applications 9 has a huge variety of options.
A very neat feature and one that was influenced by customers. Set it up in System Setup. You can link a document in one place but make it visible in many other connections. If you use Document Manager properly, that means everyone always has access to the latest version.
Most users want “Match Case” turned off by default when they search. Since IFS Applications 8, that can be done in System Parameters. There are two levels of search – form and enterprise:
Enterprise search was completely redesigned in IFS Applications 9. You can group together search domains now.
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