Creating a button

No, we did not get document management. But, our engineer was given the
impression that there is a way to do this without having to get doc mgmt.
Thanks
lf


-----Original Message-----
From: Lydia Coffman [SMTP:lcoffman@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:23 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Creating a button

Linda:

Do you have document Management Module? It does this (that little button
with the T-square) in Part Master, Job Entry and so on. Works pretty well
once you get the hang of it, users can't change the files, only view, it
recognizes lots of file extensions. We use it for our Assembly and Test
Procedures, drawings, Test information and so on.

Lydia
lcoffman@...

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Furio [mailto:lindafurio@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:02 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Creating a button

Our engineer wants to add a button to a Vantage form. I showed him Vantage
Basic, but he does not feel this is the way to go. Below is his synopsis
of what he wants to do. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? You
can reply to the Yahoo Group or directly to our engineer. His e-mail
address follows his request.

Questions for Vantage Users Group

1. Can User defined buttons be added to existing vantage windows (ie
part
maintenance)
2. Can this button be linked to some script or macro?

I would like to create a button on an existing Vantage form like part
maintenance. This button would run a script that would build a file name
from the part number and rev number and then open a file "partnum-rev.pdf"
which would contain the drawing for the part.
Any suggestions?
Blake Hobson blakehobson@...
Image Industries



Thanks
Linda Furio




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Our engineer wants to add a button to a Vantage form. I showed him Vantage
Basic, but he does not feel this is the way to go. Below is his synopsis
of what he wants to do. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? You
can reply to the Yahoo Group or directly to our engineer. His e-mail
address follows his request.

Questions for Vantage Users Group

1. Can User defined buttons be added to existing vantage windows (ie part
maintenance)
2. Can this button be linked to some script or macro?

I would like to create a button on an existing Vantage form like part
maintenance. This button would run a script that would build a file name
from the part number and rev number and then open a file "partnum-rev.pdf"
which would contain the drawing for the part.
Any suggestions?
Blake Hobson blakehobson@...
Image Industries



Thanks
Linda Furio
You could put could put Vantage Basic code on the On Entry Event of the VB
Form. This would allow you to use the VB Forms button itself to open the
file. Other than that you would probably have to go through custom
programming.

Ed Giallombardo
Major Industries, Inc.
7120 Stewart Ave
Wausau, WI 54403
(715 ) 842-4616

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Furio [mailto:lindafurio@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:02 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Creating a button

Our engineer wants to add a button to a Vantage form. I showed him Vantage
Basic, but he does not feel this is the way to go. Below is his synopsis
of what he wants to do. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? You
can reply to the Yahoo Group or directly to our engineer. His e-mail
address follows his request.

Questions for Vantage Users Group

1. Can User defined buttons be added to existing vantage windows (ie
part
maintenance)
2. Can this button be linked to some script or macro?

I would like to create a button on an existing Vantage form like part
maintenance. This button would run a script that would build a file name
from the part number and rev number and then open a file "partnum-rev.pdf"
which would contain the drawing for the part.
Any suggestions?
Blake Hobson blakehobson@...
Image Industries



Thanks
Linda Furio






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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Linda:

Do you have document Management Module? It does this (that little button
with the T-square) in Part Master, Job Entry and so on. Works pretty well
once you get the hang of it, users can't change the files, only view, it
recognizes lots of file extensions. We use it for our Assembly and Test
Procedures, drawings, Test information and so on.

Lydia
lcoffman@...

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Furio [mailto:lindafurio@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:02 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Creating a button

Our engineer wants to add a button to a Vantage form. I showed him Vantage
Basic, but he does not feel this is the way to go. Below is his synopsis
of what he wants to do. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? You
can reply to the Yahoo Group or directly to our engineer. His e-mail
address follows his request.

Questions for Vantage Users Group

1. Can User defined buttons be added to existing vantage windows (ie
part
maintenance)
2. Can this button be linked to some script or macro?

I would like to create a button on an existing Vantage form like part
maintenance. This button would run a script that would build a file name
from the part number and rev number and then open a file "partnum-rev.pdf"
which would contain the drawing for the part.
Any suggestions?
Blake Hobson blakehobson@...
Image Industries



Thanks
Linda Furio




To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please go to:
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I looked into doing this myself, and the problem is that the revision number
is not accessible by VantageBasic in the part maintenance module, and the
part number is not accessible in the revision maintenance module. I believe
this is purposeful on Epicor's part, as to create a greater demand for
custom programming, because the part number is included in the PartRev
database table, as per the data dictionary, but for some mysterious reason
is hidden from VantageBasic.

The only solution I can see without writing a progress 4GL program is to
send the part number as an argument to a Visual Basic program which would
search a certain directory for all the files with that name, list those
names, and have the user choose file name that is of the appropriate
revision. The Visual Basic (or C++, or Pascal, or whatever) program could
also be programmed to choose only the latest revision for print.

If you were just looking for PartNum.Pdf, a button could be placed in the
part tracker VB form containing the command

SHELLEXEC acrobat.exe {Part.PartNum.ScrValue}.pdf

Although we may soon get around to implementing something like this, we are
still using the old *partnumber* search method in the open dialog box of
Adobe and our CAD programs.

Best Regards,

Thaddeus


-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Furio [mailto:lindafurio@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:02 AM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: [Vantage] Creating a button


Our engineer wants to add a button to a Vantage form. I showed him Vantage
Basic, but he does not feel this is the way to go. Below is his synopsis
of what he wants to do. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? You
can reply to the Yahoo Group or directly to our engineer. His e-mail
address follows his request.

Questions for Vantage Users Group

1. Can User defined buttons be added to existing vantage windows (ie
part
maintenance)
2. Can this button be linked to some script or macro?

I would like to create a button on an existing Vantage form like part
maintenance. This button would run a script that would build a file name
from the part number and rev number and then open a file "partnum-rev.pdf"
which would contain the drawing for the part.
Any suggestions?
Blake Hobson blakehobson@...
Image Industries



Thanks
Linda Furio




To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/. Note: You must have already
linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access.

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/