A Few Useful Smart Office Utilities

Russel Kropp, one of our Smart Office experts, is always looking for ways to improve the interface for users.

Recently he has come up with a few new Smart Office utilities, that we are think are pretty useful:

1/ Sorting List Views from a Header

The default in Smart Office is that you can’t sort ListViews from the header. This handy Jscript lets you do just that:

Firstly add the script

Then it’s ready to be used:

 

2/ Create a Shortcut Dialog Box from the SmartOffice desktop. 

In this particular case, Russ has created a C# application that meant the user can quickly email a group of customers, from a shortcut on the Smart Office desktop.

This opens an email dialog box (This could be any sort of window – it could include fields, list views….)

After clicking this button, an email opens up with all the Back-order customers listed in the BCC field:

 

3/ Outputting documents into an Excel . xlsx format

By default, documents coming out of SmartOffice are in a .csv format. Many people like to have the information in an Excel .xlsx spreadsheet. Here is a handy utility Russ has written to do just that:

In this example, he has run the Purchase Order Delivery Reminder (PPS 665). This sends him an email with an attachment in Excel xlsx format:

 

Russ is always looking for new ideas, so if you have anything you would like to see him do for SmartOffice, then email Russ