I have been using alpha4 (DOS) for years now but with my employer moving to
Windows XP, I am forced to look at another database to do my job.
I work in a department and we currently have 12 workstations that are equipped to conduct telephone interviews. We employ up to 30 students who contact prospective students, current students, etc. to provide them with information about our college and programs. There are different stages that contacts are made (depending on the status of the prospective student) which requires up to 6 different scripts (forms). My current database consists of over 20,000 records.
I downloaded alpha5 and have been testing it out over the past few days. I am trying to set up a form to look like the alpha4 program in which had screens/pages (for example one of my scripts could have 35 screens). Each screen had questions and answers intact. Most times, there would only be one or two questions on each
screen. I am very concerned with my student employees having to scroll down and miss questions and/or answers. Its very important to make it as user friendly as possible. It was suggested to me to use tabbed forms which looks okay.
The problem is when I enter data (in the tabbed form it is highlighted) it does not automatically go to the next field --- I must hit Page 2. Also it does not skip when a value is entered that I have as a skip in field rules. Ironically it does work in the browse table.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Windows XP, I am forced to look at another database to do my job.
I work in a department and we currently have 12 workstations that are equipped to conduct telephone interviews. We employ up to 30 students who contact prospective students, current students, etc. to provide them with information about our college and programs. There are different stages that contacts are made (depending on the status of the prospective student) which requires up to 6 different scripts (forms). My current database consists of over 20,000 records.
I downloaded alpha5 and have been testing it out over the past few days. I am trying to set up a form to look like the alpha4 program in which had screens/pages (for example one of my scripts could have 35 screens). Each screen had questions and answers intact. Most times, there would only be one or two questions on each
screen. I am very concerned with my student employees having to scroll down and miss questions and/or answers. Its very important to make it as user friendly as possible. It was suggested to me to use tabbed forms which looks okay.
The problem is when I enter data (in the tabbed form it is highlighted) it does not automatically go to the next field --- I must hit Page 2. Also it does not skip when a value is entered that I have as a skip in field rules. Ironically it does work in the browse table.
Any help will be much appreciated.
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