The supplier browser

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The supplier browser

The browser pane displays a list of suppliers available for the current form.  You can select the suppliers you wish to view (if you wish to view a sub-set of suppliers instead of all suppliers available) by clicking the icon_filterbar button that appears at the top of the browser pane. For more information see the topic on Filtering suppliers.

 

From the browser pane select the suppliers you wish to view.  The supplier's details will then be displayed in the right-hand side of the form.

 

From within the browser pane it is possible to perform the following tasks by right-clicking your mouse and selecting one of the following options from the context menu:

 

Add

Copy

Delete

Save

Reset

Filter

Re-filter

 

See the following image.

 

 

contextmenus

 

 

 

Add

 

This will create a new supplier.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordnew toolbar button.

 

Copy

 

This will create a copy of the current supplier.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordcopy toolbar button.

 

Delete

 

This will delete the current supplier.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recorddelete toolbar button.

 

Save

 

This will save changes made to the current supplier.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordsave toolbar button.

 

Reset

 

This will reset the current supplier as it was when last saved.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordreset toolbar button.

 

Filter

 

This will launch the filter dialog.  This is the same as clicking the icon_filterbar button at the top of the browser pane.

 

Re-filter

 

Refreshes the contents of the browser pane.  This is the same as clicking the icon_recordrequery toolbar button.