Comments on: Sales Order (SO) Screen Challenge

By: SO Screen Challenge Results | Made2Mentor

SO Screen Challenge Results | Made2Mentor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:21:43 +0000

[...] an earlier article, I challenged my readers to come up with the widest variety of solutions to a problem I posed, and [...]

By: JOE

JOE — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:57:32 +0000

Wow, somebody else that uses Made2Manage. I love the site, I have been using m2m for 2 years now, I am starting to grow my hair back and have came to the realization I will not be able to get the company to get rid of this application. I am stuck with it and I am going to buckle down and learn vfp.

The information here is great, easy to access, and much more informative that the m2mexpert site. I am now watching one of the free videos from http://www.garfieldhudson.com/FreeVideos.aspx and this information is great.

Keep up the great work and look forward to sitting down and reading all your post as time permits.

Regards,

JOE

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:19:43 +0000

Sorry guys, I’m working on it. I hope to have it posted tomorrow.

@Stephen I can appreciate what you are saying, but I have more control over what my computers do than what my users do. I tend to go the code route.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:35:03 +0000

So, when are we going to get your answers?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:25:03 +0000

We’re already using VBA code to achieve this (and more) when it comes to customer terms. The code also updates terms automatically or only enables some terms based on the customer’s credit limit, the total order value and the user entering the order (salesmen have limited terms, sales managers have some leeway while our credit department has full rights to terms).

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:04:56 +0000

I tend to like Scott’s answer. Using code (and technology in general) to limit things because of a few dumb users just adds customizations that make supporting M2M more difficult.

Is this really a bug/feature that needs to be addressed, or would it be a better use of time to just get the SO admins’ boss on their case?

I hate solving employee supervision problems with code.

By: David

David — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:55:52 +0000

Hey guys, I’ll follow up next week with my list of proposed solutions.

@Fred I appreciate that suggestion, but what I was looking for was the ability to lock out any set of controls, not just this one. I just chose this one to give a plausible explanation as to why you would want to.

Anyway, more to come.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:39:54 +0000

You could always pay M2M a small fortune to do it for you.

By: Fred Crawford

Fred Crawford — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:04:37 +0000

How about in company setup (CSSALE) check the “apply credit hold” option so that sales orders for customers which are on credit hold cannot be changed to “open” status? (I was brain dead for a pretty long time in regard to this).

By: David

David — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:46:21 +0000

Dennis, good idea but it is foolproof?

Scott, that would probably work, but I wouldn’t keep my job long.

Andrew, how would you use FCUST to do it?

C’mon folks… you must have other ideas how to solve this.