This following topics describe how to customize the appearance of screens and add user-defined fields.

Overview
Introduces UI customization concepts.

Design Mode
Use Design Mode to add, move, or remove fields and tabs, and modify field properties.

User-Defined Fields
Customize predefined fields to store data specific to your business requirements.

User-Defined Components
Define your own business components.

Financial Text Translation
Explains how to use the Financial Translation Maintenance program to maintain text strings.

The component-based user interface supports many ways that users and administrators can tailor it based on your organizational requirements, including the following:

In addition to the customization of component-based functions, you can modify other aspects of the UI. Which features a particular user can access depends on system and user settings as well as user permissions. See Configuring System and User Settings for a discussion of settings. For more information on permissions, see QAD Security and Controls User Guide.

You can modify browse settings and search results to configure them for your particular needs. The Search options in component functions let you filter your search results in a number of ways, and save customized search settings for reuse. This feature is called a stored search. In addition, you can make a number of modifications to the search results to configure them for your particular needs, such as customizing the column layout. For more information on browses and searching, see Introduction to QAD Enterprise Applications User Guide.

You can customize reports in a number of ways by:

For more information on reports, see QAD Financials User Guide.

There are many other ways to customize the UI that apply in general, not just to component-based functions. For more information, see QAD .NET UI Administration Guide.