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Turning Off Fields
Harold Patton 
    
5 years ago
Hi Richard, I hope all is well you these days.  I am wanting to know what it would take to put some switches into the database program so that a person can turn off many fields from being shown to the user.  What I'm getting at is there are way too many fields the input clerk needs to tab or click through to complete an entry for an entire file to input.  It just takes up extra time in my point.

Also, the GROUP & RELATION tabs we don't even need and when I go from the Group tab to the Relation tab, I get a notice of wanting to Append 1 row.  I'm not sure what is being appended.

In the MISC tab we don't need the Type field but we do need a date field for the driver license information.  In the DOCUMENT tab we don't need the TYPE of document either.

Can you please look this over and let me know what you think about doing this please?

Thanks Kindly.....
Harold Patton
Richard Rost  @Reply  
          
5 years ago
I don't think I'll work in that level of complexity as far as making it a feature for EVERYONE to turn on and off specific fields, but YOU can certainly hide the fields you don't want in YOUR database. Just set the visible property to FALSE for fields you don't think you'll ever need. The rest of the database should work fine. OR, you could always just take them out of the tab order (tab stop property = FALSE).

I'd do that for the Document Type field. Just don't make it a tab stop. This way the first field would be the document name and if you WANT to specify a type, you can. Otherwise when you tab it doesn't stop there.

I'm probably going to make a way in the settings for the user to turn on and off the different tabs they don't need. That is coming. Not everyone will want, for example, the Document tab. Not sure what that Append warning is for. I thought I wrapped all of my RunSQL statements with SetWarnings OFF. I'll double-check it.

I'm going to share your comments with the group. Which is where I prefer stuff like this goes to see if anyone else shares your thoughts. If enough other people want a particular feature, I'll build it in.

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