Property Management

In MONITOR there is a Property Management which is general for all procedure windows and it allows an administrator to make certain changes regarding behavior and layout. These modifications can then be saved as property profiles for different users/groups.

The Property management... is available under the Settings heading in the Window menu, when a procedure window (of the registration/update type) is open and if you have administrative rights.

With this property management you can in four steps choose to create new property profiles linked to the current procedure window. If one or more property profiles already exist for the procedure in question you can also choose to load these and modify them.

In order for the property management to function it is required that the setting Activate own defaults / field properties under the System tab in the Settings procedure.

In MONITOR there is also list properties, which should not be confused with the property management. The list property function is managed from the Display List tab and under the Edit alternative in the Window menu in all such procedures. Read more about this under Property Profiles in Lists in the MONITOR General Information chapter.

The properties you can enter for objects in the procedure window with the advanced property management are (depending on type of object):

Hidden - the object will not be visible to the user.
Protected - the object is visible but the user can not change it (for example an alternative button) or enter anything (for example a data field).
Mandatory - the object must be selected or you have to enter something, for example, the user must enter a value in a field.
Text - you can change the text for the object, this applies to heading texts for settings and fields as well as names on tabs and buttons.
Default value* - it is possible to enter a default value for the object. This applies to field values. You can only enter a default value which corresponds to field type in question. You can for example only enter a default value in digits in a numerical field, but both letters and digits can be used as default in an alphanumerical field. For the alternative buttons the default value can be either 0 (not selected) or 1 (selected). For radio buttons the default value can be from 1 and up to the number of existing radio buttons (the value indicates the position of the radio button). If there for example are three radio buttons in a setting, the default value can be 1 (first radio button is selected), 2 (second button is selected) or 3 (third button is selected).

* The property "Default value" can today only be used in the three procedures Update Supplier, Update Customer, and Update Part.

You can enter properties for the following objects in a procedure window:

For data fields, radio buttons and alternative buttons (check boxes) you can configure the Hidden, Protected or Mandatory alternatives and also Default value. Please note that for alternative buttons you can enter this for a specific button, but for the radio buttons this will apply for the entire group.
For other buttons (for example the Comment button), tabs and column areas (tables), you can use the Hidden alternative as well as Text.
For heading texts and labels you can use the Hidden or Text alternatives. Please note that this does not apply for all text in a procedure window. See below for which objects that you cannot enter texts.

Since you can change certain headings in the procedure windows, it is possible for you to translate parts of a procedure window to another language. However, this function is not designed for the purpose of total translation of MONITOR, but it does allow you to create profiles for certain users or groups which contains changed or translated objects.

Below you will find certain procedure window objects that it is not possible to enter texts for as a property:

Generally you cannot change the text for database objects since the text of the object was entered in the database and not in the procedure window (for example it is not possible to change the text for selection alternatives in Search Forms/Create tabs).
You cannot change the text of radio buttons and alternative buttons.
You cannot change the text in table headings (for example the Supplier link heading for parts) and Search Form headings, for example the From heading.

Generally, it is more difficult to change texts for objects in procedure windows in the Workshop Info module due to the fact that a lot of the information used there is loaded from the Recording Terminal. A text row that is loaded from another part of the system, as e.g. certain fields in the recording terminal window, cannot be renamed. This is because they are not headings or ordinary text, but information loaded from the database.

There is also an "advanced properties" function in fields which can be applied by configuring MONITOR in "debug mode". In this mode you can configure a number of properties for a field and also move around fields on the x-axis and y-axis in a window or a tab. These properties are then saved by using the above mentioned property profiles.

To use the advanced properties in fields, please contact an instructor/consultant at Monitor ERP System AB for instructions.