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Item Maintenance Extended Description

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Posted on by babubaskaran@outloo... 12

Dear All,

We have a requirement where the Item Description is more than 100 character limit of GP.  We are planning to enter the detailed extended description on the Note icon next to the item number field.  But our biggest challenge is give the user ability to search this by this field and bring the record on SSRS and print the same.  Can any of you guide me how to achieve this.

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    Mike Bufano Profile Picture
    Mike Bufano 1,484 on at

    One option might be to deploy an ISV product Named Extender.  You can create custom fields in minutes and associated them to any GP window/form.  Not sure if there is a limitation on the ability to search by these items.

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    Srini Ramidi Profile Picture
    Srini Ramidi 2 on at

    Hello,

    I don't see any problem displaying Note on SSRS report, Just  link to the NOTEINDX in the SY03900 table and return the Note Text. for search i guess you can create a smart list report.

    Best,

    Srini

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    Tim Wappat Profile Picture
    Tim Wappat 5,713 on at

    I would go for extender option too. The notes field is not ideal. Extender would allow you to export the SQL for the SQL view that you could build upon in Navigation List builder to allow it to be easily searched by users.

    I would expect at some point someone will ask to store more fields against the item, or want multiple languages supported, so using extender this is easy as it just becomes some more fields.

    Note that the extender long string type is max of 255 chars. If this is a true bigger html item description listing, like you might find for a catalogue item listing then I would go back to the notes field idea.

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    babubaskaran@outloo... 12 on at

    Dear All,

    Thanks everyone for your kind reply.  I totally forgot about the extender and we do have extender and can use the same, only some items description is having more than 255.

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    Tim Wappat 5,713 on at

    ...from experience I had the feeling that would be the case, which is why I mentioned that limitation, splitting over two fields is not nice either, so back to your original plan.

    You can still create a navigation list pointing at a custom SQL view that exposes the notes field for searching in the UI. Same view could be used for reporting services reporting or whatever...

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