With certain Terms of Deliveries our company is responsible for paying freight, which we then will pass on as a freight charge to the customer.

We have been asked to notify the user when they are entering a quote that the customer's term of delivery requires a freight charge.

We do not own source code, nor do we have access to QKey, so the 2-3 lines of code that it would take to conditionally pop a message up to the user when certain Terms of Delivery are used on a quotation is not an option.

I’ve investigated the option of automating the zoom functionality on certain fields to zoom out to a hidden sub-session which will conditionally pop the message up based on the Term of Delivery, but since all of the fields I would use to place this automatic zoom on also have ‘standard’ zoom functionality, I would be creating a scenario where the standard field zoom would execute whether the user would want it to or not (in addition to the requested functional enhancement).

Are there any other tricks which could be used? I have thought of these other possible options:

Nightly audit report (after the fact)
DB based trigger to send e-mail when no freight line is added to quote (after the fact)
Pre-session which user would enter the customer number which would go through checks, display any necessary messages, then pass control to the Maintain Quotations screen.
Mimic of Maintain Quotations session which will then use AFS to pass values to the real Maintain Quotations session and then take the user to the Maintain Quotation Lines session.


The first two aren't the best as they may force the user to go back into the quote instead of notifying them ahead of time. The third I liked, but the user's didn't. The forth option could be done but cost/benefit isn't there.

Maybe I'm being too picky about options... personally I think that it would be the quotation's officer's job responsiblity to check the Term of Payment and though their supervisor agrees wtih me, he still wants the functionality.

Anybody have any other 'easy' suggestions that I missed? If there aren't I think I'm going to push for option 3.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hi,

There are still other tricks out here ;). Check this one:
http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?t=559

I hope it helps,

- George

If u have to check the small functionality only at the time of say insert , u can still use zoom to hidden session functionality. In that hidden session u have to import choice and compare it with add.set. In case of modify.set or dupl.occur u can still use the standard zoom.to functionality using zoom.to$ function in before.program of hidden session and storing the return value of zoom.to$ to exit.val$ of the hidden session.

U can also use empty procesinfo$ variable in all session to intiailize/re-initialize at appropriate events.

4th option to have pre-entry AFS session is ok but it will require more efforts .

Sorry, other 'opportunities' have recently taken my time away from this post's 'opportunity'. Thank you all for your suggestions. I have looked into george7a's option and it is fantastic!