Drop Down Menu

 

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Selecting one of the items on the menu items causes a drop down list of action items to be displayed.

These items represent all the actions that can be performed with this form. They are grouped by category.

These included editing, querying and navigation actions.

Many form actions can also be performed with a keyboard key.

The tables at the end of this document list all the keyboard shortcuts.

On Screen Buttons

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Description of Buttons


Top of Form Buttons

List-of-Values

The small square box next to the Semester item is a List-of-Values button. Pressing this button provides a pop up screen of valid choices. This is shown in more detail below.

Next/Previous Pages

In the upper right and left corners of the form are left- and right-facing arrows. These represent Previous screen and
Next screen buttons. The previous/next screen arrows show other pages of a multi-page form. These will be grayed out if there is no page to navigate to.


Bottom of Form Frequent Action Buttons

Fast Forms


The Fast Forms (Other Forms) button provides a pop up list of forms that are needed frequently. This shortcut eliminates the need to return to the main menu. Key items are automatically replicated on the new form eliminating the need to reenter a query.


Next/previous record buttons


The buttons on the bottom allow for rapid data entry and query actions. Unavailable options are grayed out. Many of the most common menu items are available using these buttons.

The previous/next record buttons cause the next/previous item from the database to be displayed. This can also be done with the up and down arrow keys.

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