Defining Custom Fields

It is possible to enhance both a Transport Form and a Task with custom fields that are not simply text. This functionality supercedes “Text Fields” as described in the previous section.

Custom Fields are created and edited by ActiveControl Administrators via the ActiveControl Windows GUI screen configuration screen. [on the Fields tab]

Custom fields allow the administrator of Transport Expresso to add much more enhanced types of custom fields to either a Transport Form or a Task:

1. Text fields – You can now control the number of rows and number of characters that can be entered for a particular Text field
2. Drop-down List – You can now allow the user to specify that a field is a single field drop-down list. The possible values the user can enter can be specified (e.g. 0001 = United States, 0002 = United Kingdom etc).
3. Selection List – A selection list is similar to a drop-down list but the user can see multiple possible selection lines at the same time; in current TE, it is not possible to select multiuple values.
4. Option/Radio-Button
5. Check-box – can be created with alignment options of Left of Text, Right of Text or Aligned.
6. Date
7. Time
8. User Selection – pulls user list from those setup in SU01 in the Domain Controller.

With Active Control a ‘Name Selection’ field type has been added to Transport Expresso custom fields.

This field type has been added for customers that have been using text fields to record the names of people – eg ‘Project Managers’ or ‘Key User’ . Using a Name Selection field avoids the need to manually type out the users name (and the associated risk of typos / misspelling), with the additional benefit ithat the information can also potentially be used by other areas of Transport Expresso, for example custom user exits.

All custom fields can be marked as optional, mandatory or hidden.