Status bar panels

Fisherman

our users have asked for some functionality that I'm not sure I can give them.

We have 2 servers right now - a parallel server, and a live server. We have given the users shortcuts that point to batch files that will open Navision to a particular instance (Parallel or Live), but it appears that the users are getting confused once both screens are open...

They would like to have the name of the server in the Status bar at the bottom.

Is this even possible?

DenSter

It's the company name that shows up in the button, so you could rename the company.

Fisherman

Interesting idea. Thanks. I'll give that a shot.

Scott_Frappier

With 4.0 SP2, we got around this by doing two things:
1.) When Application Management runs the login trigger, a message is presented (similar to the Cronus message) that tells the user that they are in a testing enviroment.
2.) A menugroup called "Navision Testing" is created. The menugroup is put to the top so that users have visibility as long as the Navigation Bar is visible. Remember, you have to put a codeunit or something else in this group to stay visible.

You could also do a company rename, but some of our testing setups require that we do not rename the company, as we want to take Live data and restore it quickly into the testing enviroment.

Hope this helps.

Savatage

Another easy way for them to notice is change the Allow to & from posting dates in the G/L setup to last month or something.

When they get the error that they can't post - they will realize they are in the test database.