Using Media Objects

You can use the Media Objects feature to add text, graphics, and other objects to forms and records. For example, you can use a text attachment to explain special circumstances surrounding a journal entry. Or you can attach drawings, animations, and other types of objects to forms and records. A pop-up menu provides access to established templates for attachments and an option to set the properties for the Media Objects form.

When you attach a media object to a form, the attachment might not be available if you access different data on the form. For example, if you attach a media object to a detail form that contains data for Order Number 2002, this attachment does not appear on the detail form that appears when you access data for Order Number 3003. The base form, which in this case is a detail form, is the same for both Order Numbers, but the data associated with the form is specific to each Order Number. The Order Number represents the key to the location where an attachment is stored.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). OLE enables you to create links among different programs. Using these links, you can save an object from one program into a different program. The system provides the links that you need to attach OLE objects. You can attach OLE objects as media objects and at the base form level. When you attach an object at the base level of the form, you attach the object to the form and not to any data that might appear in the form.

If attachments exist for a form, a paper clip button appears at the right of the status bar when you open the form. For an OLE object attached at the base form level, a document button appears at the right of the status bar.

When a form first opens, grid rows do not indicate whether attachments exist for the corresponding records. You can perform a search on every record that the system loads onto your workstation or you can search each record to determine whether attachments exist for records.

The Text feature includes a word processor that lets you create, view, edit, and delete notes. When you create a text attachment, you can also set up templates. You can use templates to create a format for a frequently used media object.

Starting with Tools Release 9.2.8.2, you can click a PDF attachment to open the file directly in the Media Object Viewer.