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That's good news! It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I may be able to use this new feature in a creative manner to get really close and keep from having to write and maintain something custom. Thanks again!

It's been a while since I've looked at the stock Method screen grids, but the Qty field in the grid likely has custom actions added to its LoseFocus event that does the Qty X Price = TotalPrice calculation.  Also, (triggered on postback) each grid has a before/after Edit and before/after Add function where you can add custom actions.

Regardless of the raw data entered/saved, I think you can override the display of the Qty number using the SQL Round function to simply drop the decimals off, leaving the whole number. That may be a bit confusing, though, should your customer enter a 2.5 for Qty, refresh the grid, and see a 2 in the field b/c of the rounding.

Also, one other question re: calendar activities. Most of our Work Orders will be assigned to multiple employees. Anyone found a way of doing this in Method right now?

Right now my company has a paper schedule (created weekly, often changed due to various logistic issues, customer/employee availability, weather, etc) with penciled in employee names, customer names, and a very brief description of work. Obviously I'm trying to find the best way to replace this paper schedule with Method's Field Services ...

Is there a setting where I can control how many characters are shown in grid cell before the link 'show all' is displayed? This is a nice feature, but I'd like to cut it off at 30 characters and then have the 'show all' link. I can do it it in SQL - SUBSTRING(field, 1, 30), but the nice 'show all' link doesn't ...

Thx. I should have been more specific. I'm looking to filter data for the Preview, not merely constrain the number of records. For instance, is there a way to Preview records by filtering certain fields? A WHERE clause, basically. Thx

Any way I can constrain/specify the test dataset the Preview is based on when working in the Report Designer? Thx BC

Anyone doing automated web UI tests against MethodCRM? Given the typical monthly release cycles, I'd like to have a suite of browser based UI tests I can run (or schedule to run) so I can ensure functionality is still working as expected. Thanks, BC

Ha. Thx. Not original...but still comical. Thx for the technical explanation, too. Sometimes (not THAT often) I miss those days of setting up servers, SSL certs, and handling all the software config stuff. Glad Rackspace worked it out quickly for everyone.