Learning Path: Every User
💡This path lists the topics every BOS Enterprise user should know first, whatever their role. Start here, then follow the path for your role.
1. Find Your Way Around
- Menus: Describes how to set up Menu Groups and Menu Templates, with their list and edit view fields, menu settings and tile menu options.
- Layout: Describes how to change grid view layouts so you can search, group, filter and align columns and use the Menu button to save views.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Lists the keyboard shortcuts in BOS Enterprise: menu shortcuts, Production Planning, Service Manager project tasks, Enter and Esc, and selecting and moving around.
- Glossary: Defines the terms used in BOS Enterprise and in this documentation, with links to the pages that explain them.
2. Work With Lists
- Transaction List Views: Describes the transaction list view, with its buttons, filters and fields in the transactions and items views, and the summary and board views.
- Batch Updates: Shows how to select several records and apply a Batch Update to them, with the access settings and examples of batch update functions.
- Transaction Summaries (Context Menu): Describes the summaries you open from a transaction's right-click menu, for example, the customer summary, linked transactions and audits.
3. Understand Transactions
- Statuses: Describes header and Item statuses for transactions, their settings fields and how to create and edit a status.
- Transaction Edit Views: Describes the transaction edit view, with its menu buttons, interface, item buttons, fields and context menus.
- Copying Transactions: Describes the copy screen, with its statuses, filters and item fields, and shows how to copy a customer transaction to a supplier transaction.
- Transaction Approvals and Checklists: Describes the checklist interface, how to use checklists on transactions and the Approvals module with its access settings, buttons, filters and fields.
4. Notes, Output and Emails
- Notes: Describes where you can add notes in BOS Enterprise, such as transactions, Service Manager tickets, customer and supplier records and status bars.
- Attachments: Describes how to add, view and edit attachments on customers, suppliers, Items and transactions, and covers output pipelines and image hosting.
- Output: Describes how to set up the Output button with Output Templates for reports and transactions, and lists the onscreen output options.
- Email Reference: Describes the BOS Enterprise email client: its folders, buttons and filters, how to write a new email with recipients and attachments and how to use groups.
- Reminders: Describes the Reminders list of workflow and personal reminders, how to postpone and dismiss them, and the Reminder window.
5. When Something Goes Wrong
- Error Messages: Lists the access, setting and delete messages that BOS Enterprise shows, where each appears and how to fix it.
- Frequently Asked Questions: Answers common questions about BOS Enterprise terms, differences between features, customising, user access, features and troubleshooting.
- User Access: Explains how access works in BOS Enterprise, where each kind of access is set, the access options and Transaction Access.