Some of the screens in the application may have few unusable fields which are not required at the time of doing the transactions. To meet the business requirement, field configuration is required to add the fields in the screens for which information is necessary to be captured and remove the unusable fields.
Apart from field visibility, you can also set other properties like, display order, mandatory or not etc.
The fields available in the following screens can be configured.
Assign Ticket
Customer
Customer Information
Customer Registration
Journal Voucher
New Merchandise Order
Online Payment
Order Booking
Price Plan
Pricing
Promotion
Prospect
Receive Payment
Registration
Self Prospect
Self-Registration
Selfcare Service Order
Service Order (New)
Simplified Price Plan
Standing Instructions
Depending on the business requirement, you can add/remove fields in the above screens to capture the relevant details.
How to Configure fields in a screen:
On the System Administration module, click Basic Configurations, and then click Field Configuration.
In the Screen Name drop-down, select the screen for which you want to configure the fields.
The fields, which can be configured appear on the screen with details like Field description, visibility, optional/mandatory, display order, and is default.
Click the edit cion against the field you want to configure.
Modify the required details and click icon. Repeat the process to configure other fields.
Click Save to save the configured fields.
Field Details
Field Description: Description used for the field to be configured.
Is Visible: Used to set the visibility property of the configured field. If the value is set as "Y", the field is visible in the respective screen. If it is set as "N" then it doesn't appear in the screen.
Is Mandatory: Used to set the mandatory property of the field to be configured. If the value is set as "Y", it is compulsory to capture the field information in the respective screen. If it is set as "N" then it is optional to capture the information.
Is Default: Used to set the default property of the field to be configured. If the value is set as "Y", the field appears in the screen by default.
Display Order: Used to set the display order of the field to be configured in the screen. Display order can only be changed for the fields which are configured as IS_DEFAULT = ‘Y’.
Whenever user clicks on the above screens, fields marked as "visible" will be displayed on the screen in a proper order set at the time of configuration.