Apply Existing Epicor Context Menu to Another Field

Using the context menu maintenance utility you can add a new context menu but what if you want to apply the existing created context menu to other fields.

For example: the Part.PartNum context menu will be available for any control of the form bind to the Part.PartNum but if I used UD field like Character01 to hold the PartNum value in other form and I want this field to have the same context menu of the PartNum without creating a new context menu.

Here it’s the solution:

You want to customize the Part Maintenance form by adding a new text box and you bonded it to Character01 field in the Part table. To apply the same context menu on this field follow the below steps:

-          Open the Customization Tools Dialog form.

-          From Tools menu click on “Data Tools”.

-          The custom data dialog for will open and you will the like properties as you can see in the below pic.