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Just a quick tip I discovered this week while implementing custom payroll calculation logic. Hopefully others will find this useful in their customization efforts within Method. I have a top level button action that includes several different calls to other buttons using the action 'Call Another Action Set'. Once I get the basic ...

Not a problem! :) A new screen and table will automatically be created only for a new dropdown field type. Other field types such as text or decimal will not.  - Jason

Not sure why it doesn't have a type, it should be either a Lead/Customer or Vendor. What happens if you select the result with an empty type field? Do you see the customers information? If so add the contact to that record then refresh your Method web page and see if the new contact is associated with the correct Customer. - Ashur

Ok thanks. Just want to make sure that I am doing this right. So every time I create a new field in the customer table, a new screen will be automatically created?

Yes. If you deleted the screen that was created automatically with your dropdown table and you think that you may need to edit or add to the dropdown choices in the future I would suggest recreating the screen like I mentioned above. - Jason

The screen I deleted was not created by me, I do not need it. It was created automatically when I added a dropdown filed to the customer table. I just did not know that I was going to need it to edit the field in the future, do I still have to follow all the steps the you especified before?

Marcelo,  The dropdown options are displayed in chronological order of when they were created. The only way to change this is to delete and recreate them. If you have added this dropdown field to any screens you should delete these fields from the screens before you delete the field in the table.  In regards to the screen you ...

Marcelo, Since you have your equipment already in Method as fixed assets, instead of using the equipment field, you can customize the grid on the Add/Edit Work Order screen to allow you to select a fixed asset for that job item. You would have to add the field to the ActivityJobItem table as a dropdown linked to the item table.  You can then ...

When I search two names appear, the customer lead that was in method before, and the new name with the new email address, but it does not have a "type", and the gadget does not find it.

Also, I deleted one of the new screen from one of the new dropdown fields, I did not know what it was. Will I have to delete the dropdown field and create it again to fix this??