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:

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:

Using Common Elements

Basic Field Types

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:

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