Ray -
Quote:1) You only ever have to press F3 once to delete a record. If you have advanced past your last record and your on form entry programming is setting a field value, you still only have to hit F3 once. What you may have been seeing is if you delete the last record in a result set you are put into extend mode which is a blank record if your programming changes this record then it may appear to be exactly like the partially blank one that you just deleted when in reality it is a brand new record. So you are not deleting the same record twice you are deleting two seperate records.
I understand. So, my next question is: Is there a way to delete the "blank" record without bringing up another "blank" record that I have to delete? The bottom line is that I would like to press F3 once and be done with it.
Quote:I do not see it as a problem that we do not automatically save any change that you make and that we warn you that the changes that you have made have not been saved.
I am not saying that is is a "problem" (per se) that you do not automatically save changes --- although I personally would very much prefer it. This is especially true, if we could have an "undo" option so that we could revert to the original record, in the event an unwanted change was made.
But, what I am saying is that it is clearly a nuisance to have to go through so many clicks - to simply do what I want in the first place and there has to be a better way to deal with this.
Coincidentally, here's exactly what I was doing when I was notified of your last reply to this message.
I made a change to a record and wanted to retrieve another reocord. So ....
1. I pressed F7
2. I had to then press "No, I don't want to close this record."
3. I had to then press Navigation to open the menu options.
4. I had to then press Save Record to save my changes.
5. On this attempt, I pressed save record once and "it didn't take" so I was back to Pressing F7.
6. I was again back to (#1 above), having to press "No, I don't want to close this record."
7. I then had to press Save record twice to get it to actually save the record.
8. I had to press F7 (twice) to get to where I wanted to be in the first place -- which is retrieve spec mode.
Even if save record had "worked" in step 4, I still would have had to make 4 or 5 clicks to simply save the record and switch modes. In either case, I think this is an extraordinary amount of extra effort to simply save a record and change modes. So, once again I would prefer:
1) automatic save with a simple "undo" option.
2) failing the automatic save, my original request for one click to save the record (or not) and advance to the selected mode. Something like: "Your changes have not been saved. Do you want to save them before closing the record?" Yes No
Thanks for forwarding my original request for future consideration. I would appreciate it very much, if you would also forward these additional comments.
I would also appreciate hearing from others on this issue. Surely, I can't be the only one who finds it so annoying. And, in the unlikely event no-one finds it annoying, I would like to know whether anyone sees any problem with my alternate suggestions.
Thanks!