Question about the Quick SelectBox

[Mike Palandri]

We have much the same situation, except that our lookup screens are activated the "@" sign.  To make it easier for users to remember which key to use, we often use the appropriate character as the last character of the screen label, e.g.

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At 05:51 PM 06/21/2000 +0100, Robert Mills wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Have some fields where the user has to select between a few (between 2 and
>6) options. As these options do not change, have used SelectBox where the
>available values are held in the dictionary. Now need to add 'selection
>boxes', where the available options are on disc, to some other fields. Idea
>was to write some menu screens that could be called from the fields input
>procedure if a certain value was entered. Standard 'popup screens' that most
>of us have used before and as documented in Cognos' SupportLink back in
>1992.
>
>Here is the problem:
>
>SelectBox is activated by the hash and my 'popup screens' are activated by a
>dollar sign. User does not like having to use different keys to do the same
>thing. My fault as the popup screen looks just like the SelectBox output.
>
>Solutions?
>
>1) Replace all SelectBox's with 'popup screens' - loads of programs to
>write.
>2) Put a marker at the end of each field that has a lookup - loads of
>screens to change.
>3) Get QUIZ to do the correct thing when a single character is entered --
>probably still have to change the screens but may be quicker.
>4) A better option suggested by you??
>
>Running:
>
>PH819C4 on MPE/iX 5.5 pp7
>
>Regards,
>Robert
>
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