You use this program to assign rich format text to selected key fields within SYSPRO (e.g. Ledger codes, sales orders, lots, etc).
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| Save | Select this to save the notes entered against the key
field. See Notes Storage for additional information. |
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| Select this to print the notes for the current key field. | |||||
| Send Document as Attachment | Select this to email the current note text. The text is sent as an RTF attachment called 'Notes.doc'. This enables the recipient to view the attachment using MS Word or MS WordPad.
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| Edit | |||||
| Undo | Select this to undo your previous editing action since last saving the note. | ||||
| Redo | Select this to redo the previous action you undid. This is the same as undoing the previous undo action. | ||||
| Cut | Select this to cut the highlighted text from the note. | ||||
| Copy | Select this to copy the highlighted text to the clipboard. | ||||
| Paste | Select this to paste notes from the clipboard. | ||||
| Select All | Select this to highlight all the text on the note. | ||||
| Date Stamp | Select this to paste the current system date and the current operator code into the note. | ||||
| Clear Notes | Select this to completely remove the note for the current key field and exit from the program. | ||||
| Format | |||||
| Bold | Select this to change the highlighted text to bold. If the text is already in bold then the bold formatting is removed. | ||||
| Italic | Select this to italicize the highlighted text. If the text is already in italics, then the italics formatting is removed. | ||||
| Underline | Select this to underline the currently highlighted text. If the text is already underlined, then the underline formatting is removed. | ||||
| Font | Select this to change the font of the currently highlighted text. | ||||
| Alignment | |||||
| Align Left | Select this to align the currently highlighted line to the left margin. | ||||
| Center | Select this to center the currently highlighted line. | ||||
| Align Right | Select this to align the currently highlighted line to the right margin. | ||||
| Preferences | |||||
| Configure Default Font | Select this to configure a default font to be applied
system-wide when any new notes are added.
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| Help | |||||
| Contents | Select this to navigate to the SYSPRO help page for the Notepad Editor. | ||||
![[Note]](images/note.png)
The following table lists the shortcut keys you can use with the Notepad Editor program:
Table 1. Shortcut Keys
| Keys | Result |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Tab | Tab |
| Ctrl+Number Pad 5 | Select all |
| Ctrl+A | Select all |
| Ctrl+E | Center alignment |
| Ctrl+R | Right alignment |
| Ctrl+L | Left alignment |
| Ctrl+C | Copy |
| Ctrl+V | Paste |
| Ctrl+X | Cut |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl+Y | Redo |
| Ctrl+'+' or (Ctrl+Shift+'=' ) | Superscript |
| Ctrl+'=' | Subscript |
| Ctrl+1 | Line spacing = 1 line |
| Ctrl+2 | Line spacing = 2 lines |
| Ctrl+5 | Line spacing = 1.5 lines |
| Ctrl+' (apostrophe) | Accent acute. After pressing the shortcut key, press the
appropriate letter (e.g. a, e or u). This applies to English, French, German, Italian and Spanish keyboards only. |
| Ctrl+` (grave) | Accent grave. After pressing the shortcut key, press the
appropriate letter (e.g. a, e or u). This applies to English, French, German, Italian and Spanish keyboards only. |
| Ctrl+~ (tilde) | Accent tilde. After pressing the shortcut key, press the
appropriate letter (e.g. a, e or u). This applies to English, French, German, Italian and Spanish keyboards only. |
| Ctrl+; (semicolon) | Accent umlaut. After pressing the shortcut key, press the
appropriate letter (e.g. a, e or u). This applies to English, French, German, Italian and Spanish keyboards only. |
| Ctrl+Shift+6 | Accent caret (circumflex). After pressing the shortcut
key, press the appropriate letter (e.g. a, e or u). This applies to English, French, German, Italian and Spanish keyboards only. |
| Ctrl+, (comma) | Accent cedilla). After pressing the shortcut key, press
the appropriate letter (e.g. a, e or u). This applies to English, French, German, Italian and Spanish keyboards only. |
| Ctrl+Shift+' (apostrophe) | Active smart quotes |
| Backspace | Move one character to the left and delete the character |
| Ctrl+Backspace | Delete previous word. This generates the same as F16 |
| F16 | Same as backspace |
| Ctrl+Insert | Copy |
| Shift+Insert | Paste |
| Insert | Insert/Overwrite toggle |
| Ctrl+Left Arrow | Move cursor one word to the left |
| Ctrl+Right Arrow | Move cursor one word to the right |
| Ctrl+Up Arrow | Move to the beginning of the current line/up one line |
| Ctrl+Down Arrow | Move to the beginning of the current line/down line |
| Ctrl+Home | Move to the beginning of the document |
| Ctrl+End | Move to the end of the document |
| Ctrl+Delete | Delete the next word or the selected characters |
| Shift+Delete | Cut the selected characters |
| Esc | Stop drag-drop. While doing a drag-drop of text. |
| Alt+Esc | Change the active application |
| Ctrl+Shift+A | Set all CAPS - toggles back again |
| Ctrl+Shift+L | Toggle the bullet style |
When you add a note to a key field using Notepad Editor, it is allocated a unique number. This number is generated from the ADMNOT control file (located on the server) and is used to create a unique filename. The name of the file defaults to: Nxxxxxxx.RTF, where xxxxxxx refers to the generated number that is incremented each time you add a note.
In a Windows or mapped environment, these files are saved to the ..\Work\Notes folder.
In a Unix Client/Server environment, these files are saved to the ..\base\notes folder.
Because RTF editing takes place on the client workstation and the text contents are streamed back to the application server for saving on the server, the RTF editor functions identically on both Windows and Unix platforms.
Some Business Objects have been modified to use COMNOT to return the notes stored in these rich text format documents.
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You access the editor by either pressing F7 when you see the Notepad icon, or selecting the Notepad icon itself.
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Only regular text characters are recognized when printing notes added using the Notepad Editor program.
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You should not use square brackets ( '[' or ']' ) in any RTF notes fields. Square brackets (and specifically the closing square bracket ']' causes text to be truncated when using SRSdocument printing. This means that notes on your documents (e.g. invoices, delivery notes, purchase orders, quotations, factory documentation, etc) may not be printed in full when printing them using SRS.
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You can prevent the unauthorized maintenance of key field notes by denying access to the Notepad Editor at group level (Groups). The Notepad Editor program is located within the System Admin & Shared Programs module, displayed once you have selected Security Access.
Regardless of whether access is denied to the program, the operator can still view the notes held against a key field.