Alternative Expand Configurations

Alternative expand configurations allow different settings of the Expand action template depending on the content of the displayed record.

This feature of Expand action template is commonly referred to as "filter masks".

In UPDATE_DEFAULT alternative expand configurations are used as follows:

  • for Activity records (MA) depending on the Activity Type
  • for distinguishing between newly created (B7New) and existing (B7) Stock Control records (B7New does not contain the Quantity factor field because otherwise it would not be updated according to the selected St.V.Type).

To define alternate expand configuration, at least two Expand configurations for an info area must exist (e.g. MATel and MALetter).

  1. Select a field from the Add Condition for this Field drop-down list.
  2. Click to define the conditions to be met and assign the alternative Expand configuration.

    Use the variables $curRep, $curDay and $curTenant as comparison values for rep, date and tenant fields.

    Use the button to combine multiple criteria.

The conditions are checked in the order they are defined.

  • Use the and buttons to change their order.

The following operators are available (Cmp drop-down list):

=,>=,<=,<,>,<>

These operators support neither wildcards nor regular expressions (thus a condition company name = u* will not return all companies starting with u but only companies where the name literally is u*).

If you need to use wildcards, you have to use LIKE with regular expressions.

LIKE

LIKE supports only regular expressions (attention: case-sensitive syntax).

E.g. to find all companies starting with an uppercase U, you have to specify the regular expression LIKE ^U.*. To find all company names starting with U, regarless of case, use LIKE ^[uU].*.

For the valid regular expression syntax. For further details, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ae5bf541(v=vs.100).aspx.
Note: If you create "circular" alternative definitions (i.e. configurations referencing each other), the configuration where the circle is closed is the one that is applied. Example: If the definitions are "in configuration FI: if country = Austria use the FIAustria configuration" and "in configuration FIAustria: if company name starts with U use the FI configuration", there is a circular reference for companies from Austria whose name starts with U. In this case, the loop closes with the second condition, thus the FI configuration is applied to the mask.