Are you taking advantage of the Set Attention Program in JD Edwards World to give your users more flexibility and work more proficiently? Typical setup is done in such a way so that users only have access to one program at any given time. While this may work for beginner or temp workers, most experienced and power users could use more of the system if they were given the ability. The basic user is setup in security as shown below in figure 1. As you can see, the Set Attention Program (bottom of the screen) is empty. The Attention Program is a special menu you can setup and is assigned to the ESC key on the keyboard. Looking at figure 2 below, you can see that this user now has a value in the Set Attention Program (*AP). This value (*AP) is an actual custom menu in the World environment. You can create it using the option 1 on menu G901. Once you create the menu, don’t forget to update the user’s security profile by specifying this new custom menu as their Set Attention Program option. Also note, that the menu actually begins with an “*” in the security setup, which indicates that this is not a regular menu but an attention key menu (similar to the % menu definition), but the actual menu definition does not have the “*” in the name of the menu (figure 3). Looking at figure 3, you can see that you have the ability to set versions for the attention key program no different than a regular menu. I always suggest setting up Inquiry attention key programs by job type (A/P, A/R, INV, Technical, etc.), and then assign them to the appropriate users. This attention key option gives the user the ability to open up multiple programs (for example an A/P user performing data entry but needing to inquire on the Supplier # by using the Supplier Ledger Inquiry) but still leave open their original program initiated from the menu (see figure 4).
Tom Kirkley – Senior Technical Specialist, brij
