Case managment is a generic cross module solution where you can log cases with or without a defined process and keep a information. A case can be related to a number of various entities in the solution.
There are 9 case categories where you can group processes:
- General
- Sales
- Purchase
- Service
- Project
- Production
- Collections
- Audit
- Human Resources
You also have 22 entities you can associate the case with:
- Lead
- Opportunity
- Customer
- Vendor
- Prospect
- Project
- Sales order
- Purchase order
- Worker
- Service order
- Item
- Customer transaction
- Expence report
- Expence report line
- Venrod invoice
- Vendor invoice line
- Purchase order line
- Returned order
- Case
- Product
- BOM/Formula
- Route
Both categories and entities can be extended.
Working with manufacturing companies we quickly came in to a lack of entities that our customers often wanted to associate a case with. Mainly Production orders and tracking data like serial and batch numbers. We also added a lot of other entities to our standard expansion solution to our customers.
How to extend the entities?
1. Add your entities to the Entity type BaseEnum (CaseEntityType).
PS: Remember to add 100 to the last enum in the list.
2. Make the Assiciation link class (smmAssociationLink) be able to look up the data for the new entity
- entityType2FieldId
- entityType2FieldName
- entityType2TableId
- performJumpRef
- performLookup
- tableId2EntityType
3. Create relations from the case association table (CaseAssociation) to the new entity tables
Set the parameter “UseDefaultRoleNames” to “Yes”.
4. Add the dynamic lookup to the Case form (CaseDetail)
4.1 Add the entity tables as Data Source
Use the following parameters:
4.2 Duplicate CaseMoreInformation node and add the fields you want to look up
You will find this under:
Forms > CaseDetails > Designs > Design > Tab > TabPageDetails > TabHeader > AssociationsTabPage > Group_MoreInformation
This example is for Production orders as shown above:
4.3 Edit the dynamic switch for the display.
Edit the class: showMoreInformation located in methods on the root of form:CaseDetail.
- Add a new boolean in the top
- Add the boolean to showMoreInformationGroup
- In the bottom part of the code add a new if statement
5. Add the form actions to create and view related cases
Open a form in the AOT with these methods (like the salesTable form) and drag the wanted sections to the form you want. Result might look like this:
If you copy from the Sales order form you might want to change the “MenuItemName” parameter to a generic or production (in this case) to get the right category.
Remember that you can extend any type of entity to be a part of the case managment. Hope this post helps you to use it even more.
For more information about case managment check out MSDN:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh242147.aspx
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