A manufacturer must first be defined in Manufacturer Maintenance before you can assign them to an item in Inventory File Maintenance. For an explanation of the fields you must enter in the manufacturer file see the Manufacturer Information Area section of this chapter.

 

1.Go to the Inventory ribbon menu > select the Manufacturer option.

2.Click the New button.

3.Enter a unique value for the Manufacturer ID.

4.Then enter the company, phone, fax, address, city, state, zip, contact, email and website URL.

5. To find an image to represent the manufacturer if you desire use the “Image Not Defined Right-Click for Options” to access these 5 options depending on if the image is new or existing:

 

•For new images the options are:

▪Import image from file  

▪Search the Web

▪Use an existing image

 

•For existing images you have these additional options:

▪Export this image to a file

▪Remove this image assignment

 

•The image selection, search and import options above will be discussed next in this chapter.

 

6.Once you find an image click OK to save the new manufacturer record.

7. The total count of records in the lower left will update to reflect the new record total.

About the Right-Click Image Options

 

The “Right-Click for Options” drop down menu will open the Select Image dialog box. Here you can select an existing image in entrée to represent the manufacturer. Or you can import a new image from your computer.

 

Import Image from file

1. Click Import image from file option and the Import image from file dialog will open.

2. Locate the file where you saved manufacturer or brand images on your computer or network.

 

 

3. Find and select the desired image for the manufacturer. If no image is found click Cancel to return to the manufacturer record and use another image option.

4. Click on the desired image and click Open. The Preview Image dialog box will display. Click OK if you want to use the image.

 

 

5. The image will now display in the Manufacturer Image area. Click Apply to save the image and update the manufacturer.

 

 

Search the Web

1. Click the Search the Web option and the Internet Image Search dialog will open. It will have performed an initial search. Here we had to edit the Search text to fine tune the search for our manufacturer logo.

 

 

2. Find and select the desired image for the manufacturer from the web search results. Use the Next button to page through your search results. If no image is found edit the Search text again and click the Search button.

3. Once the proper image is found select it and the Image Preview dialog will open. Click the Select button.

 

 

4. The image will now display in the Manufacturer Image area. Click Apply to save the image and update the manufacturer.

 

Using an Existing Image

1.Find the desired manufacturer and right-click the image area and select the Use an existing image option.

2.The ImageSelectForm dialog box will open and display a list of the saved manufacturer images in entrée.

3.Click and select the image that you want to represent the manufacturer from the available images displayed.

4.Click OK and the image will be added to the manufacturer record.

5.Click Apply to save the image and update the manufacturer.

 

Export this image to a file

•Use this option if you would like to save manufacturer images in a file on your computer or on your network.

 

1.Find the desired manufacturer and right-click the image and select the Export this image to a file option.

2.The Export image to file dialog will open. Find the folder or use New Folder to create a  folder where you would like to save the image.

3.In the File name field enter a name for the image file use the manufacturer name.

4.For Save as type click on the drop down menu arrow to select from JPG, PNG or BMP. PNG would be the preferred image type.

5.Click the Save button and your image export it done.

 

 

Remove this image assignment

 

1. Find the desired manufacturer and right-click the image and select the Remove this image assignment option.

 

Viewing an Image

•If you click on an exiting image it will open a 200 x 200 version in a new window.

 

 

Replacing an Image

 

1. Find the desired manufacturer and right-click on the current image to open the options menu.

2. Then follow the steps in either Import image from file, Search the Web or Use an existing image discussed previously in this chapter to replace the image.

3. Once the new image is imported or selected from the list click Apply.

4. If you forget to click Apply when you exit you will see this Confirm message display. Click Yes to save your changes.