Hi
I was just wondering, if any body uses Object data manager. I have tried using it. But very less.
IMO, this data can be used externally for invoicing (Job billing) purpose. Your opinions please.
Does any body use it for job tracking or any other purpose ?
Regards
Anand
Yeah. Not editable in UI. Apart from trying it to use it externally, I tried figuring out the ways to use it. I haven't yet found any. But feel if reworked, can be useful for maintaining customised data related to jobwork, clients, job tracking, invoicing etc.
Hi Anand,
From what Foster told me, this feature was added specifically for one major customer's need's many years ago. Maybe in Version 3?
Anand Dixit said:Yeah. Not editable in UI. Apart from trying it to use it externally, I tried figuring out the ways to use it. I haven't yet found any. But feel if reworked, can be useful for maintaining customised data related to jobwork, clients, job tracking, invoicing etc.
Hi Jeff
I also have observed this feature exist for a long. However, I did not use it till I was introduced to Macros. I tried to find out ways using / pulling the data for using it in macros. But as Os says, its a different kind of beast & uneditable in UI.
Now the question arises, why does it exist for so long if it is not used to that extent. If I remember, there was a discussion on Beta site about the elimination of OCR from Trace, CorelScan, RAVE etc. due to non or less usage (or usefulness). If that is the case, what is OD manage doing here in X4 ?
It can be of great use if this is made free to use in UI.