Extra Menu Options in Marketing

The Target, Company and Vehicle menu of the Marketing Record Maintenance program are not by default equipped with the address validation interface, MB-Specific and Extra-details menu options. These must be set up.

To generate these menu options and forms, you must:

• Select from the Marketing menu the Kerridge Utilities option.
• Select from the Kerridge Utilities menu the Marketing Functions option.
• Select the Column option at the bottom of the form.
• How a fucntion is added is explained in the Marketing help option.

  Extra Details

  Depending on the information on the form, the menu option is added to the Company menu, Target menu or Vehicle menu. The Extra Details menu option is only added to the Target menu, therefore you only have to add it once.

  • FUNCID: EXTRA
  • RECTYPE: T
  • FUNCTYPE: F
  • FUNCCALL: 'MK_extra_start()
  • RINGDESC: Extra Details
  • SEQUENCE: 1
  • TYPE: G

  Address validation

  The Address validation menu option menu must be added to the Company menu and the Target menu, therefore it must be added twice.

  • FUNCID: MBAVF
  • RECTYPE: T / C
  • FUNCTYPE: F
  • FUNCCALL: 'MBMK_AddressValidation("T") / 'MBMK_AddressValidation("C")
  • RINGDESC: 0

  Mercedes-Benz Specific

  The Mercedes-Benz Specific menu option menu must be added to the Company menu, Target menu and Vehicle menu, therefore it must be added three times.

  • FUNCID: MBINF
  • RECTYPE: T / C / V
  • FUNCTYPE: F
  • FUNCCALL: 'MBMK_ShowMarketing("T") / 'MBMK_ShowMarketing("C") /'MBMK_ShowMarketing("V")
  • RINGDESC: 0

  After you have created the Marketing Maintenance Functions, they must be generated. To generate the Screens Overlay, you must:

  • Select from the Marketing menu the Kerridge Utilities option.
  • Select from the Kerridge Utilities menu the Generate screens overlay option and run it.

  After the Screens overlay has been generated, the Modules must be made. To Make the modules, you must:

  • Select the Utilities button at the right of a menu.
  • Select from the Tab menu the Make modules option
  • Notice that the Marketing - Marketing module option is bold. If any other options on the form are bold, inform who has made changes and tune if it is ok to make the modules!
  • Select the Build button to make the modules.

  These extra screens can be added per user. To give a user access to these extra screens, you must:

  • Select from the Marketing menu the System Maintenance option.
  • Select from the Systems Maintenance menu the User access control option.
  • Select the User ID for which you want to add the extra screens.
  • Select the Amend button to change the record.
  • Select the Company buttons option from the Available buttons menu.
  • Select the Items that you want to add to the menu. The blue lines are selected.
  • After you have completed the Company menu, complete the Target and Vehicle menu in the same way.
  • Save the User record by selecting the Save button.