InBizness 2.7 Non Module Specific Overall Updates

Overall changes are not module specific and sometimes are not that grand on first look. This includes custom menu changes, value list updates, custom menus, global fields and the like. Again, not that grand but can have a huge benefit to the overall system.

New Searches custom menu to automatically take you to a saved search in an InBizness module. In the 2.7 update, we only added the saved searches for the purchase order module but that is just the tip of the iceberg and this feature is sure to grow over time.

Added the ability to click the icon in form and list views to quickly install the FileMaker menu set for Full Access users. So you don’t have to use the FileMaker Advanced custom menu option to get back to the standard FileMaker menus.

Added a new value list called Contact_type that has the options of client, lead or vendor.

Added a global field that has the company address information on one line, without any carriage returns. This was used in the reworking of many of the transaction printouts.

To help support more role based features, added fields to track what privilege set created and modified records in each table.

Added a new custom function from briandunning.com / Ilya Shuvalov called IsWebClient. This hasn’t been used within InBizness 2.7 but I imagine you can see where this is going in a future update. FileMaker Instant Web Publishing is a great feature but it has a few odd quirks that would likely require a unique layout for each module to support web enabling features. So being able to determine in a quick method if a user is using FileMaker or a web interface can become key in many of the navigation operations.

Added a button and script to allow the printing of topics from the InBizness help module.

Added a table and process to capture staff user session log in data.


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HERE ARE SOME SNAPSHOTS OF THE ABOVE LISTED UPDATES
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Here you can see the new custom search custom menu.


/>Here you can see the icon in the header in form and list views. This is now a button that will install the standard FileMaker menu set verses the InBizness custom menu set.


Here you can see the contact type value list. This helps you identify contacts based upon what module they are currently associated with.


Here you can see the new single line address global field that is used in the revised printouts for invoices and other transaction based modules.


Here you can see the fields we are using to track what privilege sets created and modified a record.


Here you can see a quick look at this new custom function for tracking the current client session.


Here you can see that we actually have printing capability to help topics. This would be used more for your internal help documentation for your customized version of InBizness. Most help information about InBizness (the framework application) is online.


Here you can see the table that we use to capture staff log in and log out history. This snapshot is from the IT dashboard.