Favorites

You use the Favorites SYSPRO Desktop function to add shortcuts to your most frequently used SYSPRO programs, reports and other applications.

Exploring

It operates as a sophisticated task panel that supports an unlimited number of categories to group your favorite programs, and tiles to launch these applications.

The tile can be used as a placeholder to display images and information, and a refresh time can be set against individual tiles so that the displayed values are updated on a regular basis.

  • This program is accessed from the SYSPRO Ribbon bar:

    SYSPRO Ribbon bar > Home

Overview topic

SYSPRO Desktop

General topics

Customize and control application

Starting

You can restrict operator access to activities within a program (configured using the Operator Maintenance program).

Controls whether an operator can edit VBScripts or change customized panes.

It also controls whether an operator can access the Visual Designer program (displayed from the sub menu of the icon).

This does not apply to importing customized panes, which is controlled by the Allow to import customized panes activity.

  • Tiles on the Favorites pane cannot be controlled by roles.

Solving

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Using

  • You can drag any program or menu item between your favorites task pane, recent programs list, personal menus and the program list.

  • By default, a Tutorials Player window is displayed as an item on the Favorites pane. This enables you to embed video clips within SYSPRO that can be deployed across your organization (e.g. as learning aids).

  • When copying a tile with images to another workstation, ensure that you copy the image to the \Base\Samples folder of the other workstation.

  • Each tile in the Favorites pane can be configured to use one or more of the macro events associated with it.

    To add a macro event, right-click on a tile and select Properties > Macro from the context-sensitive menu.

  • To add a favorite, right-click anywhere on the pane and select New.

Referencing

Tile functions are available when you right-click on an item in the Favorites pane.

Field Description

Properties

Program Details

This lets you view and maintain the details of the program this tile should launch.

If no program is linked to the tile (e.g. it is a menu tile, or you created a blank tile) then the Add New Shortcut Wizard program is launched.

Title

Indicate the title that should appear on this tile.

Tooltip

This lets you define a tooltip for the tile that will appear when an operator hovers the mouse pointer over the tile.

The tooltip can be text, or an image and can be added programmatically with VBScript (using the Tooltip variable).

Attach Picture

This lets you assign an image to the tile.

Remove Picture

This removes the image currently defined against the tile.

Action

(Navigation Pane only).

This lets you set each tile to open another menu (or category) within the Navigation Pane, or to open a flow graph.

If you define an action for a program tile (i.e. a tile already set to launch a program) then the tile performs both actions when clicked (i.e. the relevant menu, category or flow graph is displayed and the specified program launches).

Item Height

This lets you use a slider to set the height of this tile.

Auto Fit

This lets you automatically resize the tile to display all appearance settings correctly.

Macro

This opens the VBScript Editor program.

You cannot launch the program if you are in Design Mode for a role.

Appearance

Icon

This lets you assign an icon to be displayed alongside the tile.

Style

This lets you assign a preset style to the icon.

Color

This lets you define a color for the tile.

This option is not enabled if the No XAML theme is selected from the Style option.

Duplicate Appearance

This lets you apply the tile's appearance settings to all other tiles in the same category.

Duplicate Height

This lets you set all other tiles in the same category to the height of this tile.

Delete

This lets you delete the selected tile or category.

Undo Delete

This restores the deleted tile or category.

Refresh

 

Export/Import

Export Tile in an Email

This lets you send the tile as an attachment to your email client.

Save Tile As

This lets you save the file to a specific file location.

Export Menus

This lets you indicate the menus you want to export.

Import Tile

This lets you deploy a tile from a saved file.

Import Menus

This lets you deploy a menu from a saved file.
New

Program Tile

This lets you create a new tile within the current category and launches the Add New Shortcut Wizard program.

Menu Tile

(Navigation Pane only).

You will be prompted to define an action for this tile. It can navigate to another menu in the Navigation Pane (and a category within that menu) or open a flow graph.

Blank Tile

This lets you create a tile as a placeholder for future definition.

Category

This lets you create unlimited categories to help organize your tiles.
Layout

Appearance

This lets you apply a preset style to the entire Navigation Pane or Favorites.

Item Width

This lets you adjust the width of all the tiles in the Navigation Pane or Favorites.

Item Margins

This lets you set the distance between tiles.

Auto Fit for all Items

This lets you automatically resize all tiles to display all appearance settings correctly.

Reset Layout

This lets you reset tiles to their default size.

Large Icons

This sets the icons displayed on each tile to a larger size.

Expand only Selected Category

This only allows one category to be expanded at a time.

Suspend Refresh Events

This lets you stop the refresh events from firing until it is unselected, or until you exit SYSPRO.

The next time that you load SYSPRO, this option will have been unselected, and events will fire again.

Show Program Names in Tooltips

This lets you display the program name in tooltips, even if tooltips are not defined.