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Conference award::copis_users

Title:COPIS VAXination Users Conference
Notice:Please use conference ORCHRD::FMAP_USERS - see note 1.1
Moderator:ORCHRD::KIPNES
Created:Wed Jul 13 1988
Last Modified:Fri May 18 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri May 02 1997
Number of topics:171
Total number of notes:402

164.0. "RGF friendliness" by SHOTIM::NICHOLS (DENNIS NICHOLS DTN 271-6697) Wed Feb 08 1989 10:53

    I have a "user friendly" issue related to the RGF screens.
    Unless I remember, I tend to hit a return after the last entry
    but the system wants "enter". This causes some error messages
    which leaves me wondering how far I have to back up to generate
    the report again. Also, the system doesn't really give good
    solid feedback when you have generated a report.
    
    It would work better for me if we could do RETURNS all the way
    down through the screen until all of the inputs were completed,
    and then if you did any unnecessary returns , the system could 
    just tell you do  an ENTER or ^Z to generate the report. Then
    a message could come up saying that a report has been generated.
                                                    
    
                                                     
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164.1ENTER has a special meaningCINEMX::COPUSER88Cynde Becker DTN 269-2111Thu Feb 09 1989 16:0713
    
    Hi Dennis,
    
    An ENTER signifies 'finish action' and commits a request to the
    database.  If the reports worked the same way the screens do and committed
    an inquiry after going past the last field, the user would have
    no chance to correct errors.  It would also take away the ability
    to submit multiple requests with the use of INSERT RECORD HERE.
    
    In the meantime, I will look into the possibility of sending a message
    to the screen in RGF that a report has been submitted.
    
                                               cb