Quote:Sesame IS different, but it is the same, too. F1 in Sesame will bring up a Context Sensitive help screen, just like Q&A does - not a general help that forces you to search topics. Searching forms? F10 moves forward, F9 back, just like Q&A. Want to return to the Retrieve Spec? Press F7, just like Q&A. The developers at Lantica took as much of the Q&A keystrokes into Sesame as they could. Further, if you have programmed in Q&A, those programming statements and techniques are almost identical in Sesame.
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You seem to be missing my point. Sure, if I spend enough time I can get to know the wonders of Sesame. But in MY job, I need to be able to get people up and running in as little time as possible. People who know nothing about Sesame -- or Q&A, for that matter.
At the University, where I work, they have classess on Access that we can send people too. (and to get people to use Access, they need to take a class. That's how complicated it is.) But the University doesn't have classess in Sesame, and I don't have the time to teach these people the ins and outs of Sesame. With Q&A, I could have anyone up and running in a few minutes. No class was needed. And it took little of my time.
Sesame does not offer the solution that I need. At least now I can tell people to take the Access course and "figure it out yourself". That's not much of a real solution, but at least the responsibility is off of me. I can't take the time to teach them Sesame, whereas I did have the time to teach people Q&A -- because it was so simple.