How to customize new item text

Epicor ERP 9
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I am developing a custom non-conformance module in E9. It uses parent and child tables because there could be multiple defects under a single non-conformance record. When the New drop down is expanded, it reads ‘New Parent’ and ‘New Child’ (see screenshot).

I want to customize this text to say ‘New NCMR’ and ‘New Defect’. Is this possible? If so, how is it accomplished?

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This does not exactly get you there but it has enough information to help you figure it out. If you still struggle with this I can definitely post a code snippet to get you started.

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I like that link…

Also, here is a simple example from a form customization with UD10 added.
Noitice the original and new lines for the “.AddText =”

private void InitializeUD10Adapter()
{
	// Create an instance of the Adapter.
	this._ud10Adapter = new UD10Adapter(this.oTrans);
	this._ud10Adapter.BOConnect();

	// Add Adapter Table to List of Views
	// This allows you to bind controls to the custom UD Table
	this._edvUD10 = new EpiDataView();
	this._edvUD10.dataView = new DataView(this._ud10Adapter.UD10Data.UD10);
	this._edvUD10.AddEnabled = true;
	// this._edvUD10.AddText = "New UD10";
	this._edvUD10.AddText = "New RPR";
	if ((this.oTrans.EpiDataViews.ContainsKey("UD10View") == false))
	{
		this.oTrans.Add("UD10View", this._edvUD10);
	}

And you’ll want to add the new name to the case too
// case “EpiAddNewNew UD10”:
case “EpiAddNewNew New RPR”:

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Dan - Thanks for the link. It was very informative and it got me pointed in the right direction. I was able to figure out how to do this after reading through that article and doing a little investigation on my own. Since the New tool had a drop down, I had to figure out how to access it’s children and change the .SharedProps.Caption property for both of the children. Here’s the final code:

// This method is called when the form is first loaded
private void UD101Form_Load(object sender, EventArgs args)
{
    PopupMenuTool newMenuTool = (PopupMenuTool)baseToolbarsManager.Tools["NewMenuTool"];
    newMenuTool.SharedProps.Caption = "New NCMR";  // This set the tooltip when the mouse hovers over the New button
    newMenuTool.Tools["EpiAddNewnewParent"].SharedProps.Caption = "New NCMR";  // This changes New Parent to New NCMR
    newMenuTool.Tools["EpiAddNewnewChild"].SharedProps.Caption = "New Defect";  // This changes New Child to New Defect
}

And here’s the result:

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If anyone is trying to do the same thing and you’re having trouble, contact me and I’ll try to help.

Bruce - I didn’t have to go that route, but thanks for the response.

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Awesome and thanks for sharing the final solution!