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Designing Purchase Order Task Widgets

Not available in ajeraCore or ajeraCore + add-ons

The purchase order task widget is an editable widget where you can create, edit, void, print, and accept purchase orders.

Note: Alerts cannot be created on task widgets. To add an alert for purchase orders, create a reporting widget using the purchase order or purchase order detail bases and add an alert on that widget.

Before you begin

To create a purchase order task widget

  1. Click > to open Design mode, and click the tab you want the purchase order widgets to be on.
  2. In the Tab Properties area, click Add Widget.
  3. Under Widget type > Tasks, select Purchase Orders.

The Purchase Order and Purchase Order Detail widgets are added to the tab.

The widgets automatically have all of the columns required for entering, editing, and closing purchase orders.

  1. Navigate to the widgets and set up security.
  2. To allow employees to create new purchase orders, click > to open Design mode and check the Task Options > Enable "New" button box.

  3. To allow employees to edit the following columns on the purchase order widget, click > to open Design mode and click that column heading and check the Can Edit box:
  • Vendor Description
  • Number
  • Purchase Order Status
  • Description
  • Order Date
  • Ordered By
  • Requisition Number
  • Ship to Address
  • Notes

Concepts

About Purchase Orders

About designing Ajera dashboards

About Ajera dashboards

About widgets

Tasks

Turning on purchase orders

Setting up Manage menu security

Setting up reports security

Creating Reporting Purchase Order Widgets

Creating a purchase order

Adding optional columns in the Purchase Order Manage menu task

Editing a purchase order

Approving a purchase order

Copy a purchase order

Voiding a purchase order

Unapproving a purchase order

Closing a purchase order

Reopening a closed purchase order

Creating a change order

Printing purchase order

Purchase Orders

Assigning roles and employees to tabs

Setting up dashboard Designer access

Importing/Exporting tabs

Designing tabs

Designing Table widgets

Designing Chart Widgets

Viewing the widget Gallery

Changing Column Properties on Chart Widgets

Adding a formula to a widget

Designing Revenue widgets

Filtering information in a widget

Setting conditional formatting

Setting a date range in a widget

Changing tab layout

Viewing dashboard information

Printing a widget

Exporting a chart widget to PDF

Exporting a table widget to PDF

Exporting a table widget to Excel

Copy a widget to a new page or tab

Adding a Gantt chart to a table widget

Editing Gantt Column Properties

Changing the scale of a Gantt chart

Setting up tab groups

Assigning Tab groups

Deleting Tab groups

Changing Tab groups

References

Purchase Order Base

Purchase Order Detail Base

Design mode icons and fields

Layout icons and fields

Widget menu icons

Widget Bases

Widget Designer icons

Examples of chart widgets

 

 

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