Search for an application when you know what it does…

For newcomers into JDE CNC there are times when we forget the P***** name of an application that we want to use. For instance you are creating a new user in the system and now want to add the Role to the ID. Alas!! newsflash, you just can not remember the name of the application or the menu link to execute it. What a hopeless situation, which warrants asking for some help.  Well rather than picking the phone up and calling here’s what else can be done:

1. Go to fastpath and type IV [Interactive Version]
2. In the screen that appears open up the Visual Assist
3. In the QBE for Description type %Role%  and hit find
4. There you see the bright light flash. P95921 comes right in the list :)

As you search for an application in IV you can similarly search for a UBE in BV or a Table in the UTB visual assist.

Things to remember will be that search behaves differently for different databases in JDE. For Instance if you have a MS SQL DB and you search for say a user name in P01012 , it will be case-sensitive when you search in the Alpha Name field but the case wont matter if you have an Oracle DB.  :) I tried to clear one confusion but created another !!! Well that’s life… and the challenge of the unknown….