>I'm doing some SBT/Accpac work and was wondering who out there has SBT/Accpac experience? I have some questions about changes to the IC Master form. Anybody feel up to that?
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>Russell Campbell

Hi Russell,

Yes, I've done much SBT in the past, and recently helping development for a client in Mass using AccPac against SQL... Using the customization manager and all...

AccPac has all their forms designed as "formset" classes... each obviously with forms on it. Anyhow, to customize your own for changes, you need to open the "Customization Manager" (should be an option, just like the System Manager, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Payables, etc)

Once in there, go over to Maintain forms. It will display a treeview like control showing the different modules based on what you have installed. Hit the + sign next to "IC" (Inventory Control"... From there, each of the forms (and component data manager classes respectively... ex: ICITEM - forms, CMPICITEM - data managers controlers that are ALSO on the forms).

Click the form you want to have customized and hit the "Add" button at the top. It will open the fields to the right of the screen and allow you to call the NEW class and its new class library... You may for example want to subclass the form to ICITEM_a... Store it in class library ICITEM_a... in the directory (relative if you want) "IC\" (or whereever your code exists).

This will create a subclass for you to work with and you can start to make your changes in there. Once the class has been created, you don't need to actually be in SBT/AccPac to make the changes -- actually better if directly in VFP since AccPac traps keystrokes, and things like Ctrl+F to find will actualy close the #*(! forms on you and put you back into the customization manager.

One other note... When adding a customized class, it also allows you the option of picking specific users, and/or companies the subclassed form can be used for (if you wanted only certain features available to some users instead of globally to all -- which is the default).

Hope this gets you started, and when your head starts hurting looking at their code, just give me another shout.


Don