Screen Designer Modification

[AKPolarBear]

We have a test company set up for trying out new ideas or user training. It is based on copies of the live company.
I was working in this company on a new screen modification as part of a procedure modification.
While working on this, a user in the group who's screenset I had just changed, calls and asks while a certain field was now mandatory? I asked why he was in the test company and he said he wasn't.
Sure enough, the screenset in the live company was also changed from what I was doing in the test company.
I have never seen this happen before. We are 7.6.3100a on MS-SQL.
Is this the correct behavior?

I was able to confirm the above by replicating the problem several times.

 

[PhilPPhillips]

Screen sets are assigned by user or groups not by company. I use a test user when developing screens so as not to screw up current screen users.

1. copy the screen set to your test user
2. modify the screen
3. test the screen as the test user, doesnt' matter if you use the real company data or a test company
4. when the screen is what you want, copy it to the user/group that needs the modified screen

 

[AKPolarBear]

Except for using a single user, I just selected a screen from a group.

The problem is, not only did it update the group in the test company, it also updated the screen for the same group in the live company.

Is it suppose to do that? I have always used it as not.

 

[dgillz]

I think this is a bug and you should report it as so. Please keep us posted on what happens.

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[AKPolarBear]

Oh Boy! A bug report to Macola!!

Made my Friday!

 

[MacolaHelp]

Screen set changes are global and affect all companies for any user in the group you are modifying. As far as I can remember, the program has always behaved this way. To ask for screen sets to be company specific would be considered an enhancement for progression, so you will probably not be successful with asking for this functionality, particularly since ES appears to have less designability than progression.

 

[kscheeler]

FYI,

Screen designs (where allowed) in ES are company specific. the XXSCRFIL_SQL tables are stored within each companies databases.

Kevin Scheeler