May I humbly request, if we can also edit the title on the dashboard. Since we have custom title. So it would be more uniform.
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This has been discussed over and over again and will not be made possible. One of the most important reasons is consistency. Would you like for example if each person using Word or Excel would be able to change the names of the tabs to their own liking? It would be impossible to provide support to anyone because each application would look different with different meanings. In accounting software it would make for bad practice if everyone could change the tabs.
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Iâm not totally against this idea but there will need to be easy way to switch it off. If you are an accountant with many clients, you kind of want consistent UI across them.
Not to mention, all the guides and everything is based on standard terminology.
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Yes since itâs a standard terminology, maybe we can make some option to change the tab name just to fit the needs of every user, since some industry has different approaches and interpretation.
Again it is just optional, But majority of us will be more happy if this is going to be implemented. You allowed us to change the title , just let us change also the tab name, for consistency.
Thank you
Thank you. Sir for giving us hope. Looking forward for your favorable response.
Please do not presume your preference would be shared by a majority of users. The potential for confusion is high. The very first response to your suggestion was to oppose it.
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No, I wouldnât want this either
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What is your use case. By which I mean when used by which Manager users in what way does this change improve program usability or functionality.
Without a use case I can understand, the the loss out weights the benefit. Just because something can be coded does not necessary make it appropriate to do so. Changing the name of program functions clouds the program instruction documentation (it is equivalent to not having program documentation in the language you are using it). It also clouds user description of their actions when Manager does not perform as they expect, further degrading support (accurate problem description is essential when debugging user or program bugs).
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Argument put forward very well, it just makes so much sense, especially ââŚit is equivalent to not having program documentation in the language you are using it.â Be this as it may, the developers must decide to which extent they can compromise.
Also, adding to this. Itâs not just renaming the tab.
Letâs say you rename Customers to Students.
But then you probably want to rename every mention of customer to student. On all forms. Everywhere.
Manager being used as a back-end system, it doesnât seem that important. However, when I make improvements to portals, I think on customer portal, supplier portal, employee portal etc. There should probably be option to rename tabs so it reflects terminology the company is using with their customers, suppliers etc.
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@lubos raises a very important consideration. The tabs are named in their accounting context. Using his example, âstudentâ has no accounting meaning. But âcustomerâ does. Likewise, a charitable organization may refer to âdonations.â But in an accounting context, those are âreceipts.â
Call them whatever you like in external communications. But make their accounting purpose clear (especially to other accountants and auditors).
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After I have gone through this thread in its entirety, my suggestion/idea is (not for or against):
The changes in tabs can only be front-end changes, which means that at the core, they will remain the same as they are in the chart of accounts;
so the original identity of the tab will remain the same in the âCustomizeâ area;
for example: Deliver Note to Delivery Order
then the Guides also will remain the same as being for language changes
And the changes on the tabs may make changes on the related forms/documents title;
And the title change option inside the form still override everything;
These are my humble suggestion only.
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At the bottom of every page, there is an option to change the language of Manager. Maybe a âCustomâ language could be added to the list of languages. And then a way to export the labels for everything in Manager to a file. Then, someone could edit the file to whatever language they want or use the same mechanism to keep the language but change some labels. After editing the file, the user could import the language into Manager, and the labels would change.
So, if I was a bookkeeping service specializing in Manager, and one of my clients used Custom Language to change the labels, I could get everything back to normal by clicking English at the bottom of any Manager page.
Personally, I prefer not to change any labels. But this would be a way for anybody who needs to change one or even all labels to change the labels without affecting me, even if I am working on their books.
I have seen @lubos come up with outstanding solutions, whether small or large.
What I am just suggesting is for us to edit the tab name, the purpose will still the same and also its function. It is just a tab name. I donât know what is the problem with that.
For example from Payslips to Employeeâs Payslips
from Customers to List of Customers
just like that, its for presentation only, as it will not affect the functions of it.
Just let us customize it.
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The problem was explained to you. Do you know why for example Microsoft does not allow you to change the functional tabs? such as in Excel for Mac:
For example, I would like to rename Page Layout to Layout, but I can not. Changing names of these tabs would make Support impossible. You can already see the difficulty when people are posting screenshots in languages that are different from English to understand what the issues are. Indeed, including myself many are not native English speakers but the common use helps us to help each other. Hence the strong objection to this suggestion.
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Changing the Tab names would be an absolute nightmare for those trying to support Manager. Many users of Manger also contribute solutions/suggestions to problems. With everyone being allowed to change Tab names, I feel that support would drop as users wouldnât want to get into the wrangle of trying to work out what Tab was being referred to. If it aint broke - donât fix it!
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why not implement the customisation of the menu with a âDefault Buttonâ turn off all the customisation or you could Right click on the customed menue to show the default name.
@Aldo as you reply to me, I would like to refer you to my question above "âŚwhy for example Microsoft (but I could add SAP, Quickbooks, Oracle Financials, Xero etc.) does not allow you to change the functional tabs while you expect Manager to do?
If you offer something that others do not, wonât thatâll be a great selling ponit for your product?
That is a trained operator facing name change.
The benefit of which during operator training is out weighted by the cost when your installation requires support externally. To illustrate read through the forum and look for the frequency of delayed resolution of Manager operation due the the person seeking support using terminology which is ambiguous or has a different meaning within Manager. A recent example of which is:
Blurring the terminology as suggested will decrease the quality of Managers user support to the long term detriment of the program. That is why virtually all other commercial software aimed at a mass market does not do it.
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