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Customization
Manager
Solomon® Customization Manager enables you to adapt your Professional
Service Time & Billing™ and Dynamics SL system to the specific requirements of
your organization. With Customization Manager, you can quickly and easily
modify any screen in any product without changing the underlying source
code. Customization Manager makes it possible for you to update the screens
of your system as often as necessary to match the pace of your business
growth.
Comprehensive Customization
Dynamics SL® Customization Manager gives you unparalleled flexibility in
modifying Professional Service Time & Billing™ to meet your specific needs.
You can add new fields and controls, hide data items, set defaults, change
field captions, change the tabbing order, add new buttons and sub-forms,
change color and font styles, and much more. Screens are updated instantly
so you can immediately see the results of your changes.
Advanced Customization
Capabilities with Basic Script Language Customization Manager includes an
embedded Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) – compatible Basic Script
Language (BSL) that you can use for even more sophisticated customization
capabilities. With BSL, you can attach custom programs and specific business
rules to any object in any screen. These programs can perform functions such
as enhanced calculations, table lookups, validations, and references to most
fields in Professional Service Time & Billing™ and Dynamics SL. You can also
attach custom processes to specific “events”. For example, when you click on
the Save button, the Save event is triggered. You can attach a specific
operation to this event that validates an entry in a custom table or
enforces a specific rule based on your own requirements.
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With BSL, you can also take advantage of industry-standard integration
technologies such as Automation and ODBC to integrate with many
off-the-shelf Windows® applications and database sources. You can access any
ODBC-compliant data source within any Professional Service Time & Billing™
or Dynamics SL screen. You can also automate the transfer of data between
products such as Microsoft Excel® or Word® and Dynamics SL®.
Powerful Security Features
Powerful security features allow you to set up and control who can access
Customization Manager. System administrators can make screen changes that
apply to all users, one user, or themselves; or individual users can
customize their own screens. You can also be granted functional-level
customization rights, such as the ability to change field order and visual
appearance, but not the ability to insert new objects or write code.
Field-level security can also be defined using Customization Manager. For
example, you can make a Balance field invisible to some data entry users or
define a more restrictive range of valid entries.
Object Model
The Dynamics SL® Object Model is an innovative programmatic interface to the
underlying functionality of Solomon. The Object Model allows any Dynamics SL
screen created with the Dynamics SL Tools for Visual Basic to be instantiated as
an object. This interface allows Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) within
Customization Manager, or any externally hosted programming tool that can
communicate to objects via a COM interface, to automate any Dynamics SL screen,
whether standard or created by you. What's more, the object will incorporate
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