Possible Problems with Alternate or Modified Forms
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Recently I received a request from a client to add some fields on the Item Detail Entry window, which usually looks like:
That didn’t seem to be a problem, and they told me that the form hadn’t been modified. However, on a screenshot I saw a checkbox named ‘Capital Item’ which is not on the original Dynamics GP window.
The Client told me that it is because the Fixed Assets are installed in GP. I researched for a while, but there was not a modified window in Fixed Assets. That checkbox actually belongs to Dynamics GP’s original window, but it wasn’t originally placed there. It was moved to another position through some code in Fixed Assets module.
The way of working with fields like that can be a little bit dangerous. This is an example. We don’t know where that field is going to be set. And if we add some more fields on the same position, we can make a collision and in some cases the window would not work well.
The better way is making fields visible or not, but keeping them on their regular positions.