Usage In Convenient Comments Pro License
Usage in Convenient Comments Pro License¶
Do you want to control in which layouts your comment lines are shown? Then you have to upgrade the app to the “Pro” license. You can always try it first for free in a sandbox environment!
Manage Document Control in combination with Apportunix Document Creator¶
With Convenient Comments you can control on which layouts you want to show the comments you have entered. This works seamless and out-of-the-box when you are using Document Creator. You can set it up through the Convenient Comments settings. In the settings page you can navigate to “ Document Groups”. This will open the following page:
The code has to be a one-character code. As shown above, you can define a code for each type of layout where you want to display the comment lines on. The following step is to define which code corresponds to which layout. For this, go to Convenient Comments Setup and navigate to “Usage Documents Group”. Here you could use for instance the following setup:
When you enter commentlines, you can select on which documents the comment lines should be shown. You can do this by clicking on the visual assist button in the “Document Group Codes” field:
Note that you can select multiple codes in this page. For instance, when you want the comments visible on the Order Confirmation and on the Invoice, but not on the Delivery Note, you can select both the C and the I:
When you now print the Confirmation, the comments will be shown:
Usage without Document Creator¶
This functionality is integrated on all Document Creator layouts that have Comment Lines in the dataset. Document Control when not using Apportunix Document Creator In most standard Microsoft layouts, the Comment Lines are not part of the dataset. Whenever you have extended these datasets, or created your layouts, you can still use the Document Control functionality of the app, but you will have to create an extension with a dependency on the Convenient Comments app and include the following code:
On the “OnInitReport”:
On the dataitem:
