Inventory Planning > Inventory Families & Groupings > IO Collection Descriptors

IO Collection Descriptors

You use this program to maintain collection descriptors used in the Families & Groupings program to assist in defining collections.

The reason for defining collection descriptors is to eliminate typographical errors when creating collections and enabling you to work with the contents of multiple instances of the same collector descriptor. For example, you may sell BMW and Ford spares and you define collections for each of these manufactures. Under these manufacturer's collections you define a sub-collection of Brakes. This enables you to view all stock keeping units (SKUs) that fall under Brakes, irrespective of the manufacturer.

Collection Descriptor Maintenance

Field Description
Descriptor Indicate the descriptor to add or maintain.
Description Enter a description for the collection descriptor.

This is the description displayed against the collection (see Families and Groupings).

Inserting Application Help

You would typically follow this procedure to display help for the current program in a customized pane that can be pinned to the program window.

Information includes step-by-step instructions for the various functions available within the program, including a brief overview of what the program does, what setup options are required and how to personalize the program.

  1. Open the program for which you want to insert application help into a customized pane.

    This functionality is only available for a program that has panes.

  2. Right-click any form field.

    You can also click the triangle menu icon that appears in the title area of a pane.

  3. Select Insert Application Help from the context-sensitive menu.

    The application help appears in a pane within your program. You can reposition the pane using the docking stickers or pin it to the program window.

Removing the Application Help pane

If you no longer want to display application help in a pane for your current program, you can simply remove it.

  1. Select the Close icon in the right-hand corner of the application help pane.

  2. Confirm that you want to delete the pane.