Browse Lookup - Messages

[Bruce Easton]

(inline responses - Bruce Easton, STN, Inc.)

Scott Walker wrote Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:26 PM:
>
> Doing a browse lookup from within processing, is there a way to turn off
> the "Beginning of File" and "End of File" that are displayed.

I don't know of any way to remove those message from appearing
when they do.

> Maybe I'm
> missing something but it seems to me when you are controlling the browse
> lookup from processing, these messages are ugly, and kind of meaningless
> or confusing to the user.

IMO, maybe a bit inflexible, being that you can't restate them or remove
them,
but rarely 'meaningless' and I doubt 'confusing' for most typical
applications
of the browse lookup.

>
> For example, when I am on the Order Header record, the user presses "I"
> to inquire the Line Items.  A browse lookup is called that shows:
>
> LI#    Part#           Description       Qty Ordered
>
>
> The five line items are displayed in the browse lookup window and at the
> bottom left had corner of the browse lookup window is shown "End of
> File".  What's that mean to the user?  Nothing.  If the user has the
> first line item highlighted in the browse window and they press the up
> arrow, "Beginning of File" is displayed in the upper left hand corner of
> the browse window.  I can live with that one because at least it only
> happens when the user does something stupid like pressing the up arrow
> with the first the first entry already highlighted.

Well, if there can be more than five records than are valid child records
for your header, then I would think you would want the current
behavior since need the scrolling to show more than five detail
records in the window where you are only showing five at a time.

If, as it appears here, based on the beginning of your paragraph ("The
five"),
your application dictates that there are always supposed to be a max of
five records to show, then you could get around this in other ways - one
of which is making a popup window that has a static five dummy field
lines on it for the static five detail lines that you are showing in the
browse.

>
> These messages mess up the aesthetics of the browse lookup window.  Is
> there a way to turn them off.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>
>
> Scott Walker
> RAM Systems Corp.
> ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com
> Ph: (704) 896-6549
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