You can develop your application so that certain user interface elements do not appear in the client based on the application area to which they belong. These elements include page fields and actions, report request page fields, and Department items.

The full implementation of the application areas includes the following processes.

Application Area Definitions

Application areas are defined in table 9178 Application Areas. Currently there are several predefined areas, including Foundation, Fixed Assets, Jobs, CRM, and more.

Control Tagging

The following controls include the ApplicationArea property:

  1. Field control on pages.
  2. Action control on pages
  3. Field control on report request pages.
  4. Items control in a MenuSuites.

You use the property to assign one or more application areas to the controls. For more information, see ApplicationArea Property.

Application Area Activation

To activate the application areas, you use a call to the APPLICATIONAREA function. The function specifies which application areas to active for the current session. I