XA R7 Power-Link

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XA R7 Power-Link Workspaces Brenda Butler,
Senior Consultant brenda.butler_at_cistech.net
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Agenda for Today

• What is a Workspace?
• How does it help me?
• Lets create one!

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What is a Workspace?

• A Workspace is a collection of choices to display
  and work with information within an Power-Link
  object. Think easy reports.
• Function is an expansion of choosing preferences.
  You can have many sets.
• Workspaces can be placed on the application cards
  for easy access. Just select with a double click
  rather than repetitively select different
  individual views, subsets, sorts for a display of
  information to perform different and regular
  analyses or reports

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Uses for Workspaces Task or Report?

• Procurement Management
• Expediting workspace
• Close and purge workspace
• Order-Based Production Management
• Specific but alternate planner/exception status
  for MRP recommendations
• Review of orders for close at month-end
• PDM or Enterprise Product Data Management
• Purchased items or manufactured components or ?

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Create a Workspace under Customize
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Create a Workspace

• Create a new workspace with blank page.
• Give it a name and decide the domain and
  security.
• Determine if it will have a presentation scheme.
• Select LIST tab to select correct view, subset
  and
• sort.

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Create a Workspace

• Select LIST tab to choose correct view, subset
  and
• sort.

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Workspace
THE RESULT
Workspace name icon
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Make Workspace Your Preference

• Select CUSTOMIZE and PREFERENCES

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Make Workspace Your Preference

• Select correct Workspace and click CONTINUE.

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Workspaces on Application Cards

• Create a custom application cardor add to a
  default card.
• Click CUSTOMIZE and CARDS.

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Workspaces on Application Cards
Highlight the appropriate business object on the
left. Click the ADD button in the middle. Make
choices in prompt box.

• Select correct Workspace and click CONTINUE.

Select a Workspace from the dropdown. Key in Icon
name (defaults to object name). Give the
Workspace a title click CONTINUE.
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Workspaces on Application Cards
See workspaces listed at the bottom of the
application card setup.
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Workspaces on Application Cards

• Note 3 Workspaces on the custom tab
• Double click to use

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• A little bit in
• live XA

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• Thanks for joining us today!

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What about workspace custom icons?

• An icon must be of type .ico and be stored in a
• user images directory within the environment
  specific
• directory on the iSeries IFS drive.
• Example for environment AB, images would be
• stored in \XA\AMALIBA\AMFLIBB\userimages.