All our forms were designed from the start on windows GUI environment, which provides user with all popular features of Multiple windows, mouse and icons . Inside each window, user is allowed to navigate through selected record set, with indicators displaying selected from total record set, data entry mode ( Insert / Update / Query ) . etc

Some additional user friendly features, which reduces learning requirements for new users are code look up and clear messages:

• Code Lookup : for every field that requires entering code, a window or drop down list is accessible to the user. The window is available for longer code lists with a simple querying feature to shorten the searched list.
• Clear messages : ambiguous error alerts arriving from operating system and data base, together with program detected errors, appear as clear and user friendly messages.

For more experienced users, who memorize codes and are faster with keyboard than mouse clicks, here are some of the features that provide faster data entry and enabling the productive environment of many hundreds of transactions / day:

• Direct code entry
• Access keys : ( key board characters to optionally replace each mouse click buttons )
• Field level verification