Purchase Management Application

A complete solution to manage your business's purchase management needs

This Kickstart Application is available free of charge to AnswerModules ModuleSuite owners. Contact your AnswerModules sales representative for more information.

Solution features

  • Organize Vendors information and related documents (contracts, purchase orders, agreements)
  • Manage Order approval workflows (by exception)
  • Role - based User interface
  • Reporting Dashboards
  • Vendors and Product Catalogs
  • Automatically create Purchase Order for approved orders
  • Massive Order Workflows management (approval, rejection, requester inquiries)

Product Catalog

Essential Features

Present to users a comprehensive catalog of pre-registered, pre-approved purchasable materials, organized by categories and departments. Register new products and keep track of related documents, such as datasheets or user instructions. Create Purchase Requests in minutes with few clicks.

How we made it

The product catalog is backed by Beautiful WebForms which can be embedded in any Content Script generated page. Content Script and Beautiful WebForms together offer you the possibility to collect data using standard Content Server WebForms framework without having to make any compromise over the final user experience.

Manage Vendors

Essential Features

Register a new vendor and automatically create a dedicated folder structure on Content Server where to archive contracts, purchase orders and other documents, apply categories and permissions, avoid duplicates, verify relevant information: all in just one click.

How we made it

Beautiful WebForms views are capable of performing any kind of server side validation and plausibility check; furthermore, triggering any task automation on valid form submission is just a matter of writing the corresponding Content Script.

Purchase Orders

Wizards can dramatically simplify data entry, and are of substantial help to occasional users. Precompiled forms are always welcome as they can speed up employees' job and increase adoption, while reducing the risks of error. Discover how easy it is to have both these enhancements in your forms with the ModuleSuite.

Essential Features

Insert new Orders enforcing business rules, compliance and approved budgets. Manage exceptions with ad-hoc designed workflows. Automatically generate Purchase Orders for approved Purchase Requests. Approve or reject multiple request with a single click.

How we made it

Content Script allows you to embed several Form views in the same page (the Cart and the New Product Wizard are an example). Listing workflow steps, accepting and sending on tasks, updating workflows Forms: all these activities require just a few lines of Content Script code and absolutely no knowledge of Content Server internal SQL structures.

Configure user roles

Essential Features

Kickstart Configuration Console, allows you to tailor the User Interface with a Roles based paradigm. As an Administrator you will be able to define as many Roles as you need and to associate them with one or more application modules. This association will be also automatically reflected on standard Content Server's Permissions.

How we made it

Every module in the application has been implemented with a Content Script object. Being regular Content Server Objects, Content Scripts can me associated with Permissions, Categories, Classification, etc.

Technical details

AnswerModules KickStart applications are based on OpenText™ Content Server

The application pages are rendered by Content Script using Content Script HTML Templates. Content Script implements the application business logic (C), providing to the Templating service the (M)odel to be rendered in the different (V)iews. We leverage Content Script also to build lightweight REST services to be consumed by front-end javascript libraries: the CS-Rest Services are fully compatible with Content Server REST-APIs Authentication mechanism and make use of the Content Script API to fetch information related to Forms and WorkFlows without having to deal with SQL queries.

Beautiful WebForms views embedded in the application pages are used to collect and organize application data. The underlying Form Templates and Form Objects are fully managed by the Beautiful WebForms Framework: in this way users are able to modify/delete several Forms records with just a single click. All the application Forms views have been created with Beautiful WebForms Visual Form Builder, thus being easily customizable even without any HTML/Javascript/OScript skill.

Content Server Objects

Fewer objects, more functionalities

Traditionally, building applications on Content Server requires creating a lot of different objects. With AnswerModules Modules Suite, the number of required objects has been dramatically reduced. The Purchase Management Application is made by less than twenty objects. Might not seem important, but it is rather determinant in order to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of the solution and to reduce costs of any subsequent changes.

Form Builder

Stop coding: start designing

Build a Form view with the Beautiful WebForms Builder it's more a matter of taste than a matter of coding skills. Custom views can be developed and launched in a fraction of the time usually required: just find the right components in the comprehensive library and drop them in your view (and if you need more flexibility, simply create your own components to be used over and over).

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