Working in IFS Enterprise Explorer Pages

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Explanation

When you open an IFS Application page it's opened in the work area. Usually you work with one page at a time and you use Recent Screens or the Back/Forward buttons on the Explorer Toolbar to jump between the pages you are working with. If you need more than one page open you open it in a new window, read more about Working in Several Windows.

Figure 1. Work Area

There are different types of pages:

• Detail pages where you work with one object at a time, e.g. Accounts page. This type of pages can contain one or several tabs to group the information.
• Table/overview pages where you work with several objects, e.g. Inventory Parts page
• Master detail pages where you work with one object containing several rows, e.g. Customer Order page which has a header part for the customer order information and a rows part with the customer order lines. This type of pages can contain one or several tabs to group the information.

Example of basic workflow in an IFS Applications page:

When you are working in an application pages the basic workflow is the following

1. You open the page
2. You locate the data you want to work with via e.g. search or you decide to create a new object
3. You enter the data in the fields/columns 
4. You save the data.

Via the context menu, right-mouse click to open, there are different activities you can reach from a page. Examples:

• Promote the object in a business process
• View related data
• Navigate to other objects
• Output data

Using Common Elements

Basic Field Types

• Text Fields: Are fields where you can enter alpha numerical data. Read more information on Using Text Fields
• Numerical Fields: Only accept numerical values. Read more information on Using Numerical Fields
• Date Time Fields: Will accept date and time values. Double click to open the date picker to simplify the entry. You can change the format using the Assistance tab in the Options Dialog. Read more information on Using Date Picker
• IID Values Fields: Are fields which has a dropdown list from which you can select a value.

Context Menus

Via right mouse button you access the context menu where you find different actions to perform on the object(s) you are working with. The contents of the menu depends on where the cursor is placed, e.g. if it's placed in the header or row part in a page. The context menu contains:

• Actions related to the application. These differ depending on which object you are working with, there are different actions available for customer orders than inventory parts etc. Some menu items link to other parts of the application flow, some are used to change status or view details etc.
• General actions that are available in all pages. E.g. Edit, Output, Send to, Add to Selection etc. Read more about these in IFS Enterprise Explorer User Interface.

Figure 2. Example Context Menu in Inventory Parts page

In addition to the standard context menu you can choose to use the touch context menu which is useful if you are working with a touch devise, tablets etc.  Open the touch context menu by clicking on the Touch Context Menu button in the page toolbar.

Figure 3: Touch context menu