customer does not like new tabbing fields on Citation Entry

[Dorothyt 0]

Customer, Jack Lovelace wrote...

When tabbing between fields on the Citation Entry screen, the sequence now goes: Source #, Citation Detail, Surety (1,2,D,P,M in sequence, as required), Citation Memo, Reference. This change was introduced with release 9.0.

I prefer the sequence: Source #, Citation Detail, Citation Memo, Surety Values, Reference. This is the sequence in which version 8, and earlier, worked.

[Terry Reigel 0]

Actually, as I recall, there were a lot of tabs required to get from Source # to CD.

 

While I suspect some users, like Jack, will not agree, I find the new tab sequence to be very much improved - it saves me a lot of time when I can remember to not tab four times to get from CD to Surety.

[Michael Hannah 0]

The issue is which has data entered more frequently by that user: CM or Sureties.

 

The old way got to CM faster, the new way gets to Sureties faster.

 

I have both V7.04 and V8.08 available for testing.

 

In both it was 3 tabs from Source # to CD, but then only one to CM, and then 2 more to Surety.

So if your goal is CM, then 4 total tabs; but if your goal is Sureties, then 6 (through CM) total tabs.

 

In V9 it is only one to CD, but then six (through the Sureties) to CM.

So if your goal is Sureties, then 2 tabs; but if your goal is CM, then 7 total tabs.

 

Bottom line is that using tabs to get to CD and then Sureties is now faster, but getting to CM is now much slower.

 

It is a tradeoff. I think most users will appreciate getting to CD faster. But some users will prefer the new, some the old, depending upon which other fields they use most.

 

I seldom use Sureties, but often use CM, so I now have learned to use my mouse to click to CM and have abandoned using tabs to get there.