Differentiate two companies

j.stalder

Hi,

I hace created for my users two companies, one for testing and one for the production.

But it's very easy to make a mistake between the two companies and change the data at the wrong place. At the moment the only difference between the two companies are the title in the top bar.

Someone does know a way to differentiate the two companies, witch color or a big text, a different background, any ideas???

Thanks

Joachim

kine

You can add field into Company Info, in each company selec another option and you can add some Visual identification to somewhere... for example some message showed in some timer for the test company etc... (like "You are in the test database!" each 5 minutes)

j.stalder

Thanks for your idea.

I createad a form that is displayed after the login, but i'd like to know if it's possible to have this form "always on top"

Joachim

kine

No, there is not such a property or function...

themave

I created a blank form with the form name of

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TEST COMPANY

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I then added this form to the all the user menus so each menu as a few lines that say

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TEST COMPANY

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It is not a pop up box, but it is always there and easy to see.

Marije_Brummel

themave wrote:

I created a blank form with the form name of

******TEST COMPANY *******

I then added this form to the all the user menus so each menu as a few lines that say

******TEST COMPANY *******

It is not a pop up box, but it is always there and easy to see.

This is a nice tip. 8)

You don't even have to create a form. Just link form 1 (Comp Info) and change the caption.

Savatage

Here's another post
http://www.mbsonline.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11449

I guess everybody has there own way

You could always use the "Blinking Code" :whistle:
http://www.mbsonline.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12654

davmac1

Sometimes people just don't pay attention.
A long time ago, I took a short cut on a print alignment on a mailout form and used the address from the first record and just substituted the person's name with TEST PRINT.
The computer operators did not remove the test print forms and they were mailed out. Mr Test Print then called and complained.
(He did receive the properly addressed form too.)

themave

Ok, here is something you can do that is almost full proof,

change the allowed to posting dates to a far back period.

Tell your users that to post in the test company they have to change the posting date to 1/1/2001. If not it won't post.

You could possibly change the pop up error message for the test company to say, instead of date error it could say you are in the test company, if you really want to post this, go the live company or else chagne the date.

But even if you didn't do that, just the standard error message would stop most incorrect posting.

Savatage

themave wrote:

Ok, here is something you can do that is almost full proof,

Tell your users that to post in the test company they have to change the posting date to 1/1/2001. If not it won't post.

Almost =; as long as you "leave it up to" someone to "remember" something there is always a chance for error.

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We've probably all had to deal with stupid users.
User->My Monitor is broken.
Me->Press the ON button.

Marije_Brummel

Savatage wrote:

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We've probably all had to deal with stupid users.
User->My Monitor is broken.
Me->Press the ON button.

=D>

So True

DenSter

well if you set the allow posting to date to 3 years back it will be impossible to post anything, and what are you going to do then? Changing the workdate back 3 years puts you into a closed period, and that's not going to work either.

Marije_Brummel

Pop question: 8-[

How are you going to test if you cannot post; :?

Marije_Brummel

Put a message in Codeunit 12


YOU ARE IN THE TEST DATABASE



OR

ERROR('User error, please replace user'); O:)

kriki

Savatage wrote:

We've probably all had to deal with stupid users.
User->My Monitor is broken.
Me->Press the ON button.

Or:
user->My computer doesn't work
helpdesk->check the ON button ; check if the electricity-cable is connected
user->I can't check the cable, it is dark, we don't have electricity


see also http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=34637#34637

kriki

In versions prior to 4.00, you can change the background colour of the main menu.

For version 4.00+: (just came up with this idea).

Create a SingleInstance codeunit with a global in it:
global : LastTestDateTime : DateTime

IF NOT (COMPANYNAME IN ['Test Company 1','Test Company 2'] THEN
  EXIT; // IMPORTANT : of course you also have to change name of the companies in the testcompany.
  
IF LastTestDateTime = 0DT THEN
  LastTestDateTime := CURRENTDATETIME;
  
IF LastTestDateTime + 2000 > CURRENTDATETIME THEN
  EXIT; // show a message every 2 seconds. This is needed because if you post an invoice with 10 lines, you don't want a message for each line.

MESSAGE('You are in a TESTCOMPANY');
LastTestDateTime := CURRENTDATETIME;

Put the test in the lowest codeunits (12,22,...). Meaning the codeunits that are always called (eg. in C80 or C90 it is not necessary, because they call C12 or C22 or so on. In this way, you have to add the code in less places and you can keep the code also in the production DB, the performance-loss is measured in microseconds (disk-acces is measured in milliseconds).

use: In the places you want to test, put

CODEUNIT.RUN(CODEUNIT::"Am I In Test DB");