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Hello I want to know how IFS handles down payment. currently we are using IFS 8 and soon will be upgrading to IFS 10. At Present we are handling down payments manually and are not recorded in IFS. I would like to explore this. Please point me to some documents to read and explore this.   Any helpful material will be appreciated. Thanks

We are using document classes to categorize files that can be attached to several different LU’s.   If there a standard functionality configuration where you can control what document classes can be used for certain screens/LU’s?  We run into problems when a user attaches a file using a document class that should not be used for that screen.  Example:  We might have customer order whereby a user will add a document classified under “Supplier Contract”.  We would never want this added to a customer order.   Other than creating some kind of event action, is there standard functionality that can control this? We are on IFS Version 9, Update 8. Thanks!    

I’m hoping that someone may have a suggestion or two regarding the ability to place a PO on a supplier not uniquely set up in IFS. The scenario would be when we want to procure either product or service as a “one-off” with no expectations of using that supplier again. The objective would be to benefit from the control offered by use of a PO but without all the Supplier record data housekeeping effort. I am aware of the “IFS Supplier Template” facility, but wondered if: I have missed some existing suitable functionality This (or similar) does exist in IFS; but in later versions. Any additional help to justify a system upgrade would be welcomed!     Thanks very much.  

Hello, We are using Apps 8 and we have some users requesting to view the date AND time in specific date fields in IFS.  When you query the view used by the screen in Oracle it holds the date and time in the field, but when you view via the client the time aspect is removed.  Does anyone know how you can ensure the time is shown as well as the date to the users? Regards Shaun

Hi all (me again!)   Off the back of my previous topic and @RavinduS help I have managed to import my price list however I have hit a different issue.  If I enter a sales price manually on the Sales Price List → Part Based tab (and press tab/save) it will auto populate the following fields. Calc Sales Price Sales Price Incl Tax Base Price Base Price Inc Tax When creating the migration job the following fields (with flag MIU) are required to have a value which normally are auto-populated off of the Sales Price being entered however if I don’t enter a default value the migration job error’s out demanding that the field has a value. ORA-20124: Error.NULLVALUE: Field [SALES_PRICE_INCL_TAX] is mandatory for Sales Price List Part and requires a value. For now I have entered ‘0’ into the default value field to get around the error for the following fields. BASE_PRICE BASE_PRICE_INCL_TAX PERCENTAGE_OFFSET AMOUNT_OFFSET SALES_PRICE SALES_PRICE_INCL_TAX The downside is that having a default val

Currently, when adding a new button (within command groups in the page designer) it seems that the ExternalNavigationLink is being restricted to prefix with either http:// or https:// - is there any way of calling a custom scheme / protocol (class) registered on the PC?   I have a local class that has been associated with a software in where I want to invoke it from Aurena. Is this even possible?

When I create a new Change Request Record I would like to Auto Populate the “CR No:” with text like the following. ABC-0001 Where the 0001 would increment up as a sequence.   So after creating 5 Change Request I would have the following “CR No:” in the system.   CR No: ABC-0001 ABC-0002 ABC-0003 ABC-0004 ABC-0005 Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

Hi IFS, I have created a custom field which accepts data from another custom field. The second custom field is a type of reference and it is in a custom logical unit. The first custom field gets data from the List of Values.  I noticed same column is duplicated in the list of values window and it contains data which I have not entered. This behavior was not in the past. Any suggestions to avoid this?    

Hi All, We use PLSQL routing for our inbound integrations and have a question regarding error handling. When using Error_SYS, it shows the error stack in the Error Text field instead of the error message. Is there a way to format the Error Text? App version: IFS 10 UPD 3 Eg:   Cheers! Damith  

Hi Using the custom event STEP_READY_FOR_APPROVAL  as part of the document management approval routing to send an email. Email subject is using the variable &MESSAGE_TEXT which as an example contains the following:  “Document Class 3015, No 1678422, Sheet 1 , Rev REV00 is ready for your immediate approval” My questions is there a way to amend the content of this variable somewhere in IFS? We are using Apps 8. Thanks in advance Shaun

Hello, I have made an event that throws an error message to the user, using the error_sys.record_general function, based on some criteria set in the event, which triggers on a change in the status of the object.  error_sys.record_general( 'SomeLogicUnit', 'SOMEERRORMSG: this is an error message'); I am in the process of creating another event that will change the status of the object, but I am wondering if it is possible to catch the exception raised in the other event, and handle it separately?  Without handling the event, and running the event manually in a DBMS, the procedure completes, but returns ORA-20110: SomeLogicUnit.SOMEERRORMSG: this is an error message   My event would look something like this: BEGIN --change status on object, which may cause an error to be raised in the other eventEXCEPTION WHEN ... THEN -- handle the exception raised from the other eventEND; If I specify “EXCEPTION WHEN others THEN … “ I will catch the error raised in the other event, but I won’t know t

Hi all, When using an API such as Purchase_Order_API.User_Requisition_Line_To_Order(), the first 3 attributes are the newly created Order_No, Line_No and Release_No - but how do I capture them for subsequent use in the same code block? Thanks in advance, Ged.

The navigator entry for the ‘Quick Report Categories’ form has been removed from UPD 6 onwards. Before UPD 6, ‘Category’ is a mandatory field when creating a quick report. But from UPD 6 onwards ‘Category’ is a not a mandatory field when creating a quick report. Further, from UPD 6 onwards a new field called ‘Domain’ has been introduced in the ‘Create New Quick Report’ page. It is also not a mandatory field. Both ‘Category’ and ‘Domain’ fields are used for the filtering purpose and they are useful in Aurena. Since, the ‘Category’ field is not mandatory when creating a quick report from UPD 6 onwards, ‘Quick Report Categories’ navigator entry has been removed. But from UPD 6 onwards, two new forms have been introduced. They are ‘Report Category’ and ‘Report Domain’. ‘Report Category’ form can be used to create a new Report Category (for which you used ‘Quick Report Categories’ form before UPD 6) and the ‘Report Domain’ form can be used to create a new Report Domain which you can provide

If I have a Crystal Report that contains sub-reports, do I have to add CR_WEB_INIT to the sub-reports as well as the main report?

As a customer I am unable to access wis.ifsworld.com, which is the place where I should be able to see minimum and/or recommended platform specs for running the Aurena client. Fundamentally, I’m looking to identify specs for low-end tablets that would work well enough to be functional IFS Aurena clients. Can anyone either provide an alternative location to find this information or provide it directly here?  Any specific recommendations for cheap but viable tablets would also be appreciated if anyone has implemented any. Thanks, Nick 

Hi,   We are looking into System Privileges and wondering what the IMPERSONATE USER privilege does and how to use it.  Using Apps 9 UPD 14. Many thanks,   Matthew

Hi, I have Install fresh build for new Application and follow all steps and instruction which is given into Help Document and it has been installed successful.But have noticed, there are some interfaces are not in Navigation e.g Supplier, Customer, Company etc, so i use to add new item and select unused interface then it showing error “You are not authorized to view the information or perform activities on this page” “User IFSAPP has not been granted access to the page frmSupplierInfo_Ext”    

We’re creating a QuickReport where we want transaction data by month going across the row. We created an accumulating IAL grouped by YYYYMM which works great. Then creating a 2nd IAL over the first to total each YYYYMM’s Qty into it’s own month column (January, February, March, etc) and when we run that in SQL Query Tool it fails with this error:   We’ve ensured all rows have valid dates.      

Hi,   We'd like to be able to run Deferred Calls as a different user. I can't find anything to make this work. Is this possible?

Hi, I want to attache a file into Voucher Entry interface but it showing error “Bad Request” in IFS Application 9

‘Failed to retrieve Report’   Hello Community,    We’ve having an issue on our test environment, receiving the ‘Failed to retrieve Report’  message (Apps 9 UDP7) when running a CR quick report. Everything fine in IFSL The database has been refreshed from Live a few months ago, but to list the numerous things we have tried with no luck. Checked reports work through Crystal. Can confirm yes Checked credentials of all sys, print, ifssys, ifsapp accounts. Can log in to all  Performed a middleware reconfig Report is in the correct <HOME>Layout folder System parameters updated Host where CRWeb is installed Virtual Directory given to CRWeb services Updated logos value Checked Inetpub/wwwroot IFSCRWebSetup XML config files to ensure they are using TNS to correct DB Restarted IIS Restarted ‘All Servers’ bin files  Restarted windows services Restarted Extended server Removed anything other than standard views I am using the CR_WEB_INIT\ with correct linking Using IFSPRINT as the user to c

My brain has apparently stopped working today… can someone remind me what the magic key-press is to open the Debug Console in Apps7 (and prior)? Perhaps I’ll earn an “I’m having a dumb day” badge for this one … :) Nick

We have some custom fields that are truncating at 30 characters after they have been selected and saved.  The enumeration drop down shows the full text value, but once saved and the screen refreshed it will re-display it showing only the first 30 characters.  We are using Apps10 (upd5) on IEE.  I’m opening a case with IFS, seeing if anyone else is seeing the same thing or knows about this and if a solution exists.  

When trying to order a Business reporter report through IFS, and then selecting ‘view executed report’, I receive an error due to the ‘file format or file extension is not valid’. Excel is trying to open an .xlsx file when the report contains macros so its saved as .xlsm.   We are new to using IFS, therefore I hope there is someone more experienced out there to assist us with this error. I tried to attach the screen shots but it is erroring on this page. Thanks  

After getting my quick report (crystal report) to work by suffixing the views with _A I tried adding parameter(s).  Unfortunately, this has provide errors: I have added the parameter IFS_ORDER_NO. So the Crystal Report Select Expert looks like: CUSTOMER_ORDER_A.ORDER_NO  is equal to {?IFS_ORDER_NO}   However, when running the Quick Report I am not prompted for the parameter value. My idea would be to create a custom menu on the Customer Order that runs the Quick Report and uses the current Customer Order No as the parameter value.   Any ideas?