Posts Tagged ‘Extender Enterprise’
Tech Tuesday: Populating an Extender field with the “Description” of Another
Have you ever wanted to have a lookup on an Extender Form/Window and then populate another field with the description for that lookup?Example 1: I have Column 2, Row 1 on my form doing a lookup to the Customer Number. I want Column 2, Row 2 to show the Customer Name automatically so I don’t…
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Tech Tuesday: Fix Missing GP Accelerator Keys with Extender Enterprise
I’ve seen this question several times over the last few months and typically happens after a customer updates their GP from 2010 to a newer version.I’ll get a screenshot like this (boxes added by me for later clarification)Fig 1: GP 2010 with Accelerator keys visible for GP windowsand a message similar to this:I have just…
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Tech Tuesday: Conditionally Auto Opening an Extender Window with Extender Enterprise
The initial question was straightforward:I have an Extender window based on the Item Number in the Sales Transaction Entry scrolling window, is there a way to conditionally automatically open the Extender window based on that Item Number?We can start with the “easy” answer (ignoring the “conditionally” parameter).Extender can be configured to auto open an Extender…
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Tech Thursday : Extender Enterprise Pre Save Task
Have you ever needed the ability to stop a record from saving in Extender based on some criteria? You have, well so have we! We added the ability to Extender Enterprise 2016 (version 16.00.0030 and higher) and Extender Enterprise 2018.While we cannot stop the save process of every process, we have added the ability to…
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Tech Tuesday: Extender Auto Expand Scrolling Window on Open
Have you ever created a window or a form within Extender that has detail information in a scrolling grid? Have you ever wished there was an easy way to have that scrolling grid automatically expand? Well, there is. With only 2 lines of code you can automatically expand that grid when the Extender form or…
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Tech Tuesday: Displaying SQL Data with Restrictions Using Extender Enterprise
My customer had interesting request the other day.He had a SQL Query that he wanted to run, filter the query by a column or two, and he wanted to do this using Extender Enterprise.That took me off-guard a bit since to me the “correct” tool would be to use SmartList Builder to create the report…
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Extender: Giving You a Place for Your “Something”
We all have “something” that we need to store inside GP that we may currently have sitting somewhere else.Coming from 13 years of banking experience and never using GP, I recently attended a training class where I was literally blown away by how powerful yet simple the tool Extender can be. Even as a user…
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Tech Tuesday: Extending a SmartList Builder GoTo using Extender Enterprise Scripting
A user had a question today about creating a GoTo using SmartList Builder.In the SmartList, they were building a Security report based on the SY60100 table for the User/Company access.That was all working successfully.Next they wanted to create a GoTo that would open the User Company Access window.That was of course, very easy. We were…
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