Maximizer9 -- can I add columns?

I asked about this recently; I'm still on version 8.0 until the 9.5 upgrade I ordered arrives.

Gord said that Maximizer Enterprise 9.5 allows up to 99 columns.

So the question is what version is the first to have 99-column capability? I thought the 9.0 to 9.5 differences were minor.

>So the question is what version is the first to have 99-column
>capability?

I seem to recall Maximizer_9 still being limited to 12 columns. ME9.5 allows up to 99 columns. I don't remember what the limit was for ME9.0.

Thank you GoBlue and Gord, I am using Maximizer 9 rather than the Maximizer Enterprise, so I think there's no luck for more column . Thank you for your quick reply though.

You can have multiple fields display in each column. Perhaps that would help.

- R.

Regarding the multiple columns in a field, my experience is that the labels take up too much real estate and clutter the view.

This would be useful:
Smith, John_______800-555-1212_____123 Main St
MegaCorp, Inc.____Main_____________Vancouver, BC

But this is unsatisfactory:
Name: Smith, John Phone 1: 800-555-1212 Address Line 1: 100 Main Street
Company: MegaCorp, Inc Phone 1 Description: Main City: Vancouver Province: BC


And, Teresa, perhaps consider upgrading to Enterprise (there is a promotion in some markets that ends approximately tomorrow...you may have difficulty getting the order processed in time). I currently run Enterprise as a single user installation.

Thanks, I may try that multiple fields thing, seems it can help to put more information there. I am using Maximizer9 to manage information for a company so I have to stick to what they are using, once I get more knowledge about Maximizer and Maximizer Enterprise, I may be able to convince them to upgrade the software. Thank you very much!

I see what GoBlue says about field labels perhaps being too long, but if they are UDF's you have control over how long they are. For standard fields this is more of a problem.

Also, when displaying multiple fields in a single column field labels cane be quite important, particularly in a multi-user environment where users have varying levels of experience with Max, levels of discipline, frequency of use, familiarity with the database, etc. For instance, in the example provided it took me a while to figure out that "Main" was the field label for the phone number above it, while none of the other fields had labels at all.

- R.

You can choose not to display field names at all if you want....or you can make them very short, etc. Many of our columns, I do not have any field names in order to show more data

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Originally posted by Methuen:
You can choose not to display field names at all if you want.

Wow...I never saw that.

For example, column 3 contains Phone 1 and Phone 1 Description.

In Column Setup, under "selected fields," I have a window "field label." Leaving it blank causes both labels to be written in full. But if I select "Phone 1" in "selected fields," I can pull down "field label" and get a ton of options including "blank." I can even type something short like P1.

The column title is controlled by the Properties button, so it's usually obvious (unlike my other example) that a column titled "Phone 3" containing a number and the word "Fax" would indicate that Phone #3 is a fax line.

(Apparently single space keeps two items on the same line, like the Entry Type Icon and Name, while "blank" splits them on different rows)

Is this a new feature in Enterprise 9.5?

This feature / option has been around for quite some time, maybe even back to v 5.5. Field labels that are self-explanatory (i.e. Company, address, city, etc), I never use. Other times, if I have a long UDF name, I shorten it for column setup. We have over 1000 column setups as we use this for many of our reporting purposes.