Browse Lookup - Messages

[Scott Walker]

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ial.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Easton
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:08 PM
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Subject: RE: Browse Lookup - Messages

(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.

>

Bruce:


That was just an example.  An order could have no line items or up to
"999" line items.  I just want control of what the message says or the
ability not to have it at all.  I would prefer no message be displayed
(in this application).  In some other application I might want the
default message.  In another I might want a different message.

I'm just asking for finer control of what happens.

Regards,

Scott