Comment Field

bks

Hey...

Can you please tell me the use of Comment field in Customer table?

Regards,

BKS

Savatage

The Comment Field Is A Boolean Field - If TRUE then comments exist for that customer in the comment line table

If you view the properties of the comment field you would see

Exist("Comment Line" WHERE(Table Name=CONST(Customer),No.=FIELD(No.)))

kine

It is used to show correct icon for the Comment button (the pen icon) if there is some comment...

tinoruijs

And the comment field is used to show the pencil-button or the "pencil with lines"-button next to the No.

Savatage

I found the pen w/ lines was not very noticable for the users.
especially if your at 1064x768 or greater in pixels for your screen.
you need eagle eyes to notice the difference on the fly.

I changed the BMP to bright yellow
http://savatage99.googlepages.com/notes.bmp

tinoruijs

Savatage wrote:

I found the pen w/ lines was not very noticable for the users.
especially if your at 1064x768 or greater in pixels for your screen.
you need eagle eyes to notice the difference on the fly.

I changed the BMP to bright yellow
http://savatage99.googlepages.com/notes.bmp

It sure is noticable like that!

I rarely use colors in forms. Different users may want different fields to have a nice color. Before you know it you're form looks like a pinball machine.

Alex_Chow

Colors are nice. It highlights important fields the users need to be aware of. But I agree with you that too much use of colors will defeat it's original purpose.

garak

Yes but for some, stupid, useres it is easier when the important fields are colored (for example yellow).

In the most wizards that i designed, i must make the fields yellow, because only testfield(), or some else not enought for the users.

David_Singleton

garak wrote:

Yes but for some, stupid, useres it is easier when the important fields are colored (for example yellow).

In the most wizards that i designed, i must make the fields yellow, because only testfield(), or some else not enought for the users.

Well I guess if the current certification process makes it possible for people to become certified Developers without actually learning NAV, its fair for customers to expect their users to use NAV with out actually having to learn as well.
](*,)

Savatage

It's not Usually that the users are stupid but as I said when the screen size is set so small the difference isn't so obvious. & therefore on a sales order with important notes - such as call for delivery appointment, which isn't the norm for us, can be missed when dealing with 100's of orders. Especially when you about an hour to correct & post them.

This way the simple difference of a pen w/lines compared to a yellow box that actually says "Notes" is an easy way to lower possible mistakes without adding other codes such as pop up messages or warning messages.

It still comes down to humans and as we all know there is no 100% solution to prevent an error from someone not paying attention.