I am trying to find a way to search for menus that may contain certain fields. Either in a Customization or a standard menu. For example, if I am looking for a list of menus that display the VendPart.VenPartNum i would be able to get a list of all menus that use that field.
So you are really looking for a “Where Used” feature in the data dictionary. But it would list forms/reports/baqs/bpms? That would be a useful feature.
I don’t think anything like that exists… Perhaps with some development tool that iterated through all the client assemblies?
I don’t think anything out of the database would give you the full story… Happy to be told different from higher authorities.
It would be a big job.
Doable though.
*edit: Never wrote doable before. That looks really weird.
Maybe Solutions Manager could be used to export every form, then a search of the XML generated by Solutions would reveal which forrms use the field. Then cross ref the menus to the forms.
Just spitballing…