Auto Correction....

[Chrisopia]

Autocorrection is probably really easy but I havent found the tool to
a) enable it
or b) edit it...

for example, the staff that will use this system are quite lazy and will simply put d/l on an invoice, which is a chargeable fee for downloading,

I need to be able to add d/l to an auto correct list and the moment space, enter or any sort of off focus is set, it will change to "download"
but it has to be specific because 'DL' is a size of an envolope that can also be invoiced.

So i guess a bit like how a spell checker works in word for example, but less complex, there will only be a few cases wehre this will be needed, but it's needed none the less.

 

[Banana]

While it may be possible, I would say the best way to do this is to give your worker a combobox and force them to select "Download" from that list. As a bonus, they could just type 'd' and it'd auto-complete the full entry. If your tables are set up correctly and store keys instead of actual word 'Download', all entries will return 'Download' (or whatever you want it to print out).

 

[Chrisopia]

this is impossible as the combo box would be HUGE!.... the field is entered manually because there are too many different combinations of things to charge for on an invoice... thats why we only need a few things to auto correct.

One customer will need NCR invoices, whilst the next has as some booklets made, whilst another has had some wedding inserts made up!?...the list is endless!

 

[Banana]

Well, there are two possible solutions to this:

1) Use a cascading comboboxes; let your users select the type of invoice then select relevant choices that only applies for that particular invoice

2) Display the list only after n-th letter. Useful for rare events where there too many selections to meaningfully fit in a dropdown list. The combobox would be initially unbound until it had n-th letter (say 3 letter typed so far) then it's bound with a parameter query that filter the huge list based on the letter and further narrow it down as letter are added.

 

[Chrisopia]

hmm... sounds very messy?

 

[Banana]

In contrast to using AutoCorrect feature, no. If you search around, you'll see that this is the solutions more used and widely known. You are of course free to blaze your own trail with AutoCorrect idea, and if it works, we would love to know about it. But I can tell you that it's easier to maintain a cascading combobox than an AutoCorrect.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

are we talking about items to invoice to a customer?

do you freetext all the invoice descriptions then?