Extender Enhancements with Darwin 10.0

For those of you that utilize Extender to track extra fields, you will love the enhancements available in Darwin 10.0. 

 

If you are unfamiliar with Extender, this Microsoft tool allows you to add unlimited windows and fields to any screen within Darwin - including fields for emails, files, phone numbers, text fields, lookups to existing tables, lists, etc.  All these fields become part of the Reminders and Reporting systems native to Darwin.

 

In Darwin 9.0, you were required to link these windows to existing forms within the system, creating a one to one relationship.  With Darwin 10 these limitations have been removed.

 

Enhancements include:

• Free standing Detailed Forms with Sub Windows - Essentially a Mini-Application Builder

 

 

 

 

 

• Detailed Windows with Sub Windows allowing for the creation of One-to-Many Extender Items
• Window Groups for complex tracking
• Detail Windows directly off any existing window expanding One-to-Many functionality

In addition, two huge navigational enhancements have been added -

 

1.  Extender Forms can be added directly to the Navigation Menus - for example, you can Choose Cards>>State Unemployment Claims>>State Unemployment Claims and access the Extender window directly as a free standing application.

 

 

 

2.  Extender Windows that are added directly to existing Forms are now part of that Form's native menu structure: