In Syspro, it is very handy to add as many custom fields as you want – but then to report on these fields could be a pain. 

I found it easiest to create a view based on AdmFormdata (where the custom field data are stored) – and then report using only the view.

For example, if you are storing and capturing stock dimensions (Length, Width, Height, etc) – your AdmFormdata might look like this:

FormType	KeyField	FieldName	AlphaValue	NumericValue
STK	A100	DIM_L		10
STK	A100	DIM_W		20
STK	A100	DIM_H		30
STK	A100	DIM_M		40
STK	A201	DIM_L		11
STK	A201	DIM_W		22
STK	A201	DIM_H		33
STK	A201	DIM_M		44

where 

–  ‘FormType’ indicates the data is connected to Inventory (InvMaster) and will always be ‘STK’.

–  ‘KeyField’ contains the InMaster primary key = StockCode (in this case two stock codes A100 and A201)

–  ‘FieldName’ is the (user defined) fieldname e.g. DIM_L = Length, DIM_W = Width, DIM_H = Height and DIM_M = Weight (Mass)

–  ‘AlphaValue’ not used in this case – but can be used for text/alphanumeric values.

–  ‘NumericValue’ is the field value.

 

Now I would create the following simple view:

CREATE VIEW StockCodeDimensions

AS

SELECT KeyField AS StockCode,

MAX(CASE WHEN FieldName = ‘DIM_L’

 THEN NumericValue

 ELSE NULL END) AS Length,

MAX(CASE WHEN FieldName = ‘DIM_W’

 THEN NumericValue

 ELSE NULL END) AS Width,

MAX(CASE WHEN FieldName = ‘DIM_H’

 THEN NumericValue

 ELSE NULL END) AS Height,

MAX(CASE WHEN FieldName = ‘DIM_M’

 THEN NumericValue

 ELSE NULL END) AS Weight

FROM AdmFormData

WHERE FormType = ‘STK’ AND (FieldName LIKE ‘DIM%’)

GROUP BY KeyField;

 

 Resulting in the following table:    (SELECT * FROM StockCodeDimensions)

StockCode	Length	Width	Height	Weight
A100	10	20	30	40
A201	11	22	33	44

 

Note that I used  ” FieldName LIKE ‘DIM% ” in my query above.  This can simply be modified/copied to create a view for (say) ‘ANA’ if analysis codes are used to specify (eg) stock code category, colour, age group, chemical restriction, etc.