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    #1

    "Print Letter" button creation

    I've searched high and low, but I just can't remember how to create a pre-defined button on a form to automatically print a letter. Thanks for your quick help, I'm desperate!

    Rhea.
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    Hello Rhea,

    I have attached a flash player exe that demonstrates this for you. Just download the attached file and double click on it, and it will run and show you how to do this. I start from the control panel of the AlphaSports application. I then use the invoice form as a starting point.

    Good luck,
    Jim

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      Cool!!

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        #4
        Your new toy

        Jim maybe a quick article in the next newsletter on your new toy would be of interest. Looks like this was the premier showing to the board!

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          RE: Your new toy

          Hello John,

          Well, as you know :-) we will be using a new demonstration technique in the upcoming newsletter (We will be featuring a solution by John). And yes, it is kind of 'my new toy'. I wanted to test it using the message board, but I'm not sure that a flash distribution will be all that useful as a response medium to questions. Althought it is very fast to build a simple demonstration, this particular demo, in zip format, was about half the allowable upload size, which means that it would only be appropriate for smaller demonstrations because of the file size limitation. Streaming off a web site would be a better approach.

          Jim

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            #6
            Thanks.......

            Jim thanks for your ongoing efforts you are making a valuable contribution. I believe that the flash player is a tremendously powerful learning tool. I�m interested it what others have to say. Perhaps as these demonstrations develop, attach to FAQ�s or tips. Everyone at Alpha and others have worked very hard at improving the documenting for Alpha 5 V5. The one frustration I now have is finding something �. For example � the audit trails. A few weeks ago I went looking for it � just knowing that this was a new feature. Maybe it was me � but I went looking in User Guide, Xbasic and on an on until I found it in What�s New in V5. Maybe I�m in information overload. Of course that�s what we all are here for � managing information, so perhaps a solution will not be far behind.

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              RE: Thanks.......

              Jim (et al),

              Neat toy, but.... My own feeling was 1) that the old fashioned way of telling the person the same thing probably would have taken you less time (??), 2) the file size of the file used here is still too large for some of us still on dial-up (not too bad for once in a blue moon but not good if it became a common way of responding to a question) and 3)in your flash thing, is there a way for the user to interact, like in a slide show (click next to continue)? In that regard I wonder what size a pdf slide show file would be. But even there, it seems like it would take even longer (way too long) to prepare one compared to just answering the question the old fashioned way.

              Just some thoughts, maybe worth 2 cents, maybe not.

              Ray

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                That's cool!!

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                  That was a spectacular demonstration, and so much like a hands on demo. Thank you so much for your help!

                  Rhea.

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