Related Items

Use this widget to display related items with images from Infor Document Management (IDM) for a selected item.

Note: You must activate the MITALT and MITMAS tables in the M3 Function Search administration before using the widget. To update table indexes, see Infor M3 CE Core Administration Guide.

As a homepage or workspace widget, retrieval of data depends on your selection from the Item List widget or as a context widget, retrieval of data depends on the published InforItemMaster IBC message in M3. You can also search using a related item number in the widget and drill back to 'Item. Define Relations' (MMS020) by clicking a related item number.

APIs used in the widget

The Related Items widget requires application program interface (API) to retrieve data from M3 and vice versa.

This table shows details about M3 APIs available in this widget:


Program	Transaction
OIS100MI	GetOrderPromise
CMS100MI	Lst_WD_RelItems
MMS200MI	GetItmBasic

To use and test the API, see procedure about Running of MI Transaction in Infor M3 Core Infrastructure and Technology User Guide.

Infor Business Context (IBC) messages

This widget retrieves data upon receiving these IBC messages:

InforItemMaster

From M3: When an M3 program publishes the InforItemMaster IBC message, this widget receives the message and retrieves the respective M3 APIs which return and display the appropriate data of a specific item.

From Workspace: When the Item List widget publishes the InforItemMaster IBC message, this widget receives the message and retrieves the respective M3 APIs which return and display the appropriate data of a specific item.

Note: Workspace is only available in Infor OS Portal.