Hi all. I have recently been asked by my company to tackle some projects that involve customizing MS GP. I'm new to the application, but I have a background in programming several languages (mostly non-MS), so I know the theory behind what I'm supposed to do etc. We currently have an MSGP developer offsite, under contract, but this is the kind of thing that we don't want to have to pay him to do, and besides, he's got a ton of other things he's already working on.
Here's the scenerio...cust serv emps will go to the (previously modified) Item card then to (previously modified) Item Maintenance-Options. On that page there's a field to associate a manufacturer, to the item being entered. Up until now, it's been a free text field, which as you can imagine has led numerous spellings of a single manufactuer (H.P. = HP = H, P, = Hewlitt-Packard etc). And that has led to a nightmare in terms of reportng, not to mention data integrty.
My solution is to grey that field out, forcing the user to look up the name of the manufacturer and populate the MFG field based on their choice from the provided list. However, there are a few people that are going to need to have the ability to enter new MFGs as needed. My boss said I should make duplicate copies of the same form. One with the MFG as a free text field, and security role that to the appropriate people, and the other with it grey-ed out, for use by the general staff.
I have been unable to find anything that tells me how I can save a copy of an already modified form, under a different name.
Can anyone help with how to do this, or possibly another option I can persue???
Thanks,
