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Shelley, Also, I cannot change the data type of the additional fields I have added in Method (Not QB Custom Fields).  I can change the field length, but not the data type.  There does appear to be a drop down arrow indicating this widget might allow changes, but no luck getting it to work. About your Custom Screen.  I would think ...

Yes, the toolkits, libraries, and all the other technology layers that make for rapid development also introduce complexity and occasionally unpredictable behaviour.  But, what would software cost if it was all written from scratch in C? A certain allowance for behaviour that is out of the direct control of the developer is necessary for ...

Yes, that worked like a charm.  I added one field to the section then moved it up 4 rows. It took a few tries though and there is still some funky stuff going on with the screen refresh.  There's a refresh that follows the dialog box asking for confirmation to refresh and then occasionally another refresh follows and resets the ...

Oh, great idea, the container was definitely empty. I'll give it a try and report back.  I should have thought of this.  It's not uncommon to see object code that likes some data in the bucket. Cheers, James

I am trying to add a new section to a screen design and I am having problems in FireFox and IE. I am able to add a new section to a custom screen design, in this case I am adding a new section to the Customer List Screen. The new section is inserted at the bottom of the sections, in the case of the Custom List screen as copied from Full Method ...

Ryan, Thanks, that helps a bunch and I think I understand.  I only need to work with NonInventory and Service Items, so I think I'm going to be safe in my interpretation of the views into the master Items table and the associated Screen definitions. I suppose these various views into the master Items table greatly improves performance ...

Anybody want to take a crack at this? I'm planning on building a lot of new tables this upcoming long weekend and it would be a great help to have some overall conceptual understanding of the Item table(s) structure. Cheers, James  

Perfect, thanks.  The Summary Screen is very handy. Cheers, James  

I am trying to understand how the Items tables are used in Full Blown Method. There are several tables for Items including Item,  ItemInventory, ItemNonInventory, and more.  All of these Items tables appear to have the same fields including custom fields imported from QB.  All of these tables also appear to have the same number for ...

How can an EXISTING Screen and Table association be viewed?  How can I see what Table a Screen is linked to? I can see which fields are available in the Screen Edit mode, but I cannot see which table these fields come from. In most cases the association will be obvious, but for example, there are several tables for Items, all of which have ...