I am very frustrated with the strange things my application is doing listed below in the bug report sent to Alpha this morning. I had sent another bug report on the 9th of May and never received a reply, anyway if anyone has experianced the same problem and coul help I would appreciate it.
I have already sent a bug report over a month ago concerning these issues and have not received a reply, I need urgent answers as my client is getting very frustrated.
I converted my old dos based program, which worked perfectly well and quick over the network, but he needed to use bar codes and other windows facilities, so we decided on Alpha Five which I have used for some years now but not with such a big client. The client is an importer of British foods to Spain has over 5.000 products and 30 supermarkets to supply from the warehouse on a daily basis.
I designed the database based on Alpha Sports invoice system. The first problem I ran into was that when more than one operator was entering invoices the invoice items from another operator were appearing on there screen. I was using Alpha�s sequential numbering system. I reported this problem on the board and was referred to Dr Peter Wayne article on learning Alpha and I am now using his method for sequential numbering of the invoices, this solved the original problem, but created another problem which is where the program is misbehaving. With Dr Wayne�s method if an operator went to enter a new invoice and then decided to cancel it then you have an invoice number skipped in the sequence. Then if you go and use the skipped number and are entering invoice items after you have gone to the next item the invoice header skips to the next invoice number and you end up entering items in the wrong invoice number, as you can imagine this causes all sorts of problems. Also this happens more on the network than on my machine as a single user.
Kind regards
David
I have already sent a bug report over a month ago concerning these issues and have not received a reply, I need urgent answers as my client is getting very frustrated.
I converted my old dos based program, which worked perfectly well and quick over the network, but he needed to use bar codes and other windows facilities, so we decided on Alpha Five which I have used for some years now but not with such a big client. The client is an importer of British foods to Spain has over 5.000 products and 30 supermarkets to supply from the warehouse on a daily basis.
I designed the database based on Alpha Sports invoice system. The first problem I ran into was that when more than one operator was entering invoices the invoice items from another operator were appearing on there screen. I was using Alpha�s sequential numbering system. I reported this problem on the board and was referred to Dr Peter Wayne article on learning Alpha and I am now using his method for sequential numbering of the invoices, this solved the original problem, but created another problem which is where the program is misbehaving. With Dr Wayne�s method if an operator went to enter a new invoice and then decided to cancel it then you have an invoice number skipped in the sequence. Then if you go and use the skipped number and are entering invoice items after you have gone to the next item the invoice header skips to the next invoice number and you end up entering items in the wrong invoice number, as you can imagine this causes all sorts of problems. Also this happens more on the network than on my machine as a single user.
Kind regards
David
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