1. What are ADtoolkit Custom Tools?
ADtoolkit Custom tools allow the creation of tools specific to your environment. Below are some of the features of custom tools:
i) Required Fields – Prevent tools from running until all required fields have data.
ii) Default Values - Allows admins to pre-fill information into controls to speed up tool execution. ADtoolkit also allows admins to modify labels for controls, for example, a school system might change the manager field from reading "Manager" to "Teacher", in their Add Student tool.
iii) Disable Fields – Set the value of a field to read-only.
iv) Hide Operations and Operation Groups – Allows admins to show or hide operations or operation groups so that users will not see these controls. Hidden fields will still run during execution, allowing for simplified yet powerful custom tools.
v) Auto Generate – Automatically fill in fields with data from other fields during tool execution, using custom templates. For example, a field with the auto generator template "%FirstName%%LastName%" will be replaced with the users First and Last Name when information in entered into the First and Last Name fields.
Once created Custom Tools can be added to the ribbon menus throughout the product through the "Edit My Tools" menu button in the tool editor view.
i) Required Fields – Prevent tools from running until all required fields have data.
ii) Default Values - Allows admins to pre-fill information into controls to speed up tool execution. ADtoolkit also allows admins to modify labels for controls, for example, a school system might change the manager field from reading "Manager" to "Teacher", in their Add Student tool.
iii) Disable Fields – Set the value of a field to read-only.
iv) Hide Operations and Operation Groups – Allows admins to show or hide operations or operation groups so that users will not see these controls. Hidden fields will still run during execution, allowing for simplified yet powerful custom tools.
v) Auto Generate – Automatically fill in fields with data from other fields during tool execution, using custom templates. For example, a field with the auto generator template "%FirstName%%LastName%" will be replaced with the users First and Last Name when information in entered into the First and Last Name fields.
Once created Custom Tools can be added to the ribbon menus throughout the product through the "Edit My Tools" menu button in the tool editor view.