How hard to add Documents tab to Shipments?

[DannyC]

I've had a request to add a Documents tab to Shipments.

Difficult? I know I'd need a new table but adding a tab, the relevant coding to modify the grid etc I'd need some guidance.

(I know its already there in v8)

Cheers

[SBarnes]

What you are describing can be done in version 7 as I've added tabs grids and tables behind the scenes before but its a fair bit of work such as you need to react to events such as Created, Read and Saved on the business object as well as reacting to events on the controls and have code to read and write to the table and make the form's ribbon react to changes on your custom tab to enable save for example.

In doing this I've usually rolled my own Jiwa collection item and Jiwa Collection to seperate the CRUD part.

You might find it easier to ask Jiwa to quote on it as you would also need to consider what happens to the data in your custom table if the customer eventually upgrades to version 8.

The other option of course is an upgrade to version 8.