The underlying structure of many elements has been improved in SYSPRO 7.
- Larger field sizes and descriptions
- Structured Addresses
- Customize Presentation Lengths
- Invalid Characters
A key feature of SYSPRO 7 is that it caters for high volume transaction environments by extending field sizes throughout the product (see Detailed field size changes).
Key field changes include:
- 10-digit journal, register and line numbers
- 20-digit sales order, purchase order, job, quote and invoice numbers
- 20-digit operator, warehouse, branch, and area numbers
- 15-digit customer and supplier numbers
- 50-digit lot and serial numbers
- 12.6-digit quantity, mass and volume fields
- 4-digit company ids
- 50-digit description fields
Addresses are now handled in a structured manner whereby you can either use the default layout provided (i.e. building, street, city, locality, state, country, zip and geolocation) or you can associate each address line field to an element of your choosing.
You can hide an address line from being displayed on a form, and you can enable a 6.1 compatibility option to display the form as it appeared before SYSPRO 7 (see System-wide Personalization).
You can adjust the presentation length of a key field to restrict the number of characters that can be entered (for numeric fields, this adjusts the number of leading zeroes displayed).
For example, if the customer code is numeric and you enter 1, then this is displayed as 000000000000001 because the customer code can be up to 15-digits. Setting the presentation length to 5 will display 00001 making it much easier to read.
You can adjust the presentation length of a key field using the Set Key Information program.
You can prevent operators from entering invalid or special characters into key fields by running the System-wide Personalization program and enabling the Prevent special characters being entered option. You can then specify which characters are invalid for a key field entry.
A key field can be defined as a data table's unique identifier (e.g. stock code, customer number, company id, etc.).
Customizing presentation length of a key field
This makes it easier to read key field entries by restricting the number of leading zeroes displayed.
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Open the Set Key information program .
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Locate the key field you want to change.
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At the Presentation length field, enter the number of characters you want to assign to the field for display purposes.
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Save your changes
Hiding address fields on a form
This prevents an address line type from appearing on forms.
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Open the System-wide Personalization program .
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From the System-wide Address Formatting pane, enable the Hide on form option against the address line field you want to hide.
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Save your changes.
Preventing special characters in a key field
This prevents operators from entering invalid characters in a key field.
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Open the System-wide Personalization program .
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At the Key fields section, enable the Prevent special characters being entered option.
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At the Special characters field, enter the characters (without spaces) that you want to treat as invalid entries.
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If you enter a space here, it is treated as a special character (i.e. you will prevent you from entering any spaces in a key field).
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Save your changes.
Changing the default wording of an address field
This customizes the description assigned to each address line type that appears on a form.
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Open the System-wide Personalization program .
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From the System-wide Address Formatting pane, enable the User-defined option against the field you want to maintain.
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At the User-defined wording field, enter the wording you want to use for the field.
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Save your changes.