How to remove drop-down menus? Go directly to advanced menu

Votuc · 2011-05-10

Hi.

Does anyone know if it is possible to remove the drop-down quick menu on the Sales order Page for the Item No and go directly to the advanced menu? (See picture below). Where is this little menu located? What page/table? Thanks.

Andwian · 2011-05-10

Why do you want to do this? Is it because the field shown is not sufficient enough?
If yes, you could show more column you need by:
1. Since it is Item table (ID 27), go to Object Designer, and then Design it.
2. View | Field Groups
3. On the Group field, you can add more field to show on the drop down.

Votuc · 2011-05-10

Andwian wrote:

Why do you want to do this? Is it because the field shown is not sufficient enough?
If yes, you could show more column you need by:
1. Since it is Item table (ID 27), go to Object Designer, and then Design it.
2. View | Field Groups
3. On the Group field, you can add more field to show on the drop down.

Thank you Andwian. I will try this way and see if our client is happy with it.

They were also complaining that they have to scroll too much on the little drop-down menu -- this is why I was considering removing it totally and forcing it to go straight to the advanced menu. Can it be done?

Andwian · 2011-05-10

You are welcome.

Votuc wrote:

They were also complaining that they have to scroll too much on the little drop-down menu -- this is why I was considering removing it totally and forcing it to go straight to the advanced menu. Can it be done?

I experience the same problem too, actually, and never think about your idea, so never known about that.

Anyway why don't the user just type the code, or description to search it, instead of manually scroll down to it?
Or maybe it is because sometimes the user do not know the No. or Description, and just want to look-around first?

pdj · 2011-05-10

They would still need to push "something" to open the window - why not tell your client that you fixed it and say they just have to push Ctrl+F4? 8)
But please make sure they understand the benefits of changing the default filter column - this makes the drowpdown windows very usefull for most users.

Andwian · 2011-05-10

pdj wrote:

why not tell your client that you fixed it and say they just have to push Ctrl+F4?

WOW! That's the oasis on the desert! =D>

pdj wrote:

But please make sure they understand the benefits of changing the default filter column - this makes the drowpdown windows very usefull for most users.

Thanks for pointing this out.

MattKeyes · 2011-05-10

Great find with Ctrl+F4. I'm still trying to find a comprehensive list of RTC keyboard shortcuts. Does anyone know of one?

JDVyska · 2011-05-10

Votuc wrote:

Does anyone know if it is possible to remove the drop-down quick menu on the Sales order Page for the Item No and go directly to the advanced menu? (See picture below). Where is this little menu located? What page/table? Thanks.

I did a write-up on how the DropDowns work a bit ago you can check out here.

MattKeyes wrote:

Great find with Ctrl+F4. I'm still trying to find a comprehensive list of RTC keyboard shortcuts. Does anyone know of one?

In the RTC, open help, in the Index, look for keyboard shortcuts. That should get you not only the full list, but it lays out the RTC and classic ones. Very helpful if you're switching users from Classic to the RTC.

Mark_Smart · 2017-11-24

Adding normal lookup code on the page overrides it fine. Always prefered to do with with properties than code though.

Would be useful, as sometimes you have a lookup to eg. Field table and can't modify the Field Groups.

RockWithNAV · 2017-11-25

Write the Code on OnLookup trigger instead of Table Relation Property. I think it will do your Job.

How to remove drop-down menus? Go directly to advanced menu

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