Screen Designer Modifications

Changes made to GovWin CM using Screen Designer may also affect iAccess.

Screen Designer Settings

iAccess honors the following GovWin CM Screen Designer properties for fields and grids, both standard and custom, that also appear in iAccess:

• Labels
• Required
• Locked
• Hidden

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Exceptions and Special Cases

Note the following exceptions and special cases related to Screen Designer settings:

• The Companies grid on the Team tab in the Opportunities area of iAccess can contain both clients and vendors, but those are separate grids in GovWin CM. Because of that, iAccess ignores Screen Designer properties for the Vendors grid in GovWin CM and applies only the properties from the Clients grid to the Companies grid in iAccess.
• The Contacts grid on the Team tab in the Opportunities area of iAccess can contain both contacts and employees, but those are separate grids in GovWin CM. Because of that, iAccess ignores Screen Designer properties for the Employees grid in GovWin CM and applies only the properties from the Contacts grid to the Contacts grid in iAccess.
• If the Closed Reason field is marked as required for opportunities in GovWin CM, iAccess does not honor that property. To do so would make it impossible to enter a new opportunity in iAccess because that field is not available on the Add Opportunity form in iAccess.
• Screen Designer properties for Activities fields also apply to milestones and touchpoints in iAccess.

Required Fields That Do Not Appear in iAccess

GovWin CM and iAccess share a database. However, all fields available in GovWin CM for a particular database table may not be available for data entry in iAccess. If a standard field is not available in iAccess, it is automatically set to a valid default value when a record is added in iAccess. However, if you use Screen Designer in GovWin CM to make an optional standard field required and that field is in a database table shared with iAccess, be aware that this can cause problems if the field is not displayed in iAccess because users have no way to make the required entry in the field:

• If you are using GovWin CM 7.4, iAccess users can add and edit records in that table, but the required field that is not available in iAccess will be blank. They receive no error message.
• If you are using GovWin CM 7.5 or a later version, iAccess users cannot add or edit records in that table. When they try to save the record, they receive an error message indicating that a required entry is missing. You must make the field not required if you want iAccess users to be able to add or edit them.

The same behavior occurs if, in GovWin CM, you add a user-defined field to a table shared with iAccess, and you do not also add that field to one of the tabs in iAccess.