What are control desks?

A control desk is a generic SunSystems facility that allows you to extract selected data from the system. You can then view this data or pass it to another system function for further processing.

For example, control desks are used to:

• extract and display selected transactions to provide inquiries, for example Account Inquiry.
• extract selected transactions and pass them to a printing function, for example to produce account statements, picking lists, sales invoice, or dispatch notes.
• select journals for import from the Ledger Import tables.

Other features of Control Desks include the ability to:

• present the results of the inquiry in a summarized format, depending on the summary details defined on the filter. These can then be expanded through a set number of levels down to the most detailed level.
• resequence the results.
• carry out further visual selection before launching an associated function.
• drill to further data associated to the current data on display using drills defined in Drill Association Designer.
• print the extracted transaction.