Deleting material or lines on a quote: Vantage 8.03.403D

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Hi,



I can't replicate the problem with the material, but it is happening
fairly often in the estimating department. They right-click on a
material and select delete and sometimes the whole line deletes,
sometimes the whole quote.



I have been able to replicate the problem with line. I can select a
quote line and it will be displayed on the screen, but when I look at
the tree on the left side of the screen the quote number is highlighted
and if I click the X the whole quote will delete. I've told them to
make sure that whatever they want to delete is highlighted in the tree
and of course, they always say that they checked that.



We do have customization so maybe it has something to do with that.
Vantage does show a delete message and since they really do want to
delete something they just hit Ok. Vantage does not say what it is
going to delete so I was hoping there was a way to trap the delete and
display a useful delete message.



Linda



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Hi Group,

Sometimes when we delete a material or delete a line the whole quote
gets deleted and has to be recreated from scratch.

Do any of you know of a way to pop up a message on the screen to let
the user know what Vantage is intending to delete?

Regards,
Linda
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The Delete is for the tab you are currently on. If you delete from the
Quote Summary you will delete the quote.

If you delete from the quote line you will delete the line item, etc.



The only thing that I know that might help is from an entry screen (Not
the main menu)



Tools --> Options --> Dialogs --> Delete



Click on the options if they are not already clicked.



This will not tell what you are deleting but it will give you a chance
to stop of a delete. I tell the users when they see delete popup to
look at the tab they are on.

This helps some but is not 100 percent.



Hope this helps

Dale Schuerman
Senior Consultant

RAM Software Systems, Inc.
1701 North Collins Suite 200
Richardson, Texas 75080
Phone: (972) 669-0763
Fax: (972) 669-9603
Web Site: www.ramsys.com <blocked::http://www.ramsys.com/>

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Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:15 AM
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Subject: [Vantage] Deleting material or lines on a quote: Vantage
8.03.403D



Hi Group,

Sometimes when we delete a material or delete a line the whole quote
gets deleted and has to be recreated from scratch.

Do any of you know of a way to pop up a message on the screen to let
the user know what Vantage is intending to delete?

Regards,
Linda





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I'm not sure I've encountered an app that (no personalization or customization) DOESN'T pop up an 'Are you sure?' messagebox before allowing a record delete request to continue.

(That doesn't mean there aren't any however.)

Most users eventually get sick of it and check the 'don't warn me agin' option on the prompt.

You might want to make sure you are running the base app, remove any personlization and verify that there is not adefault warning messagebox.

If there is not: Turn on tracing and purposefully do a deletion to determine what business object and method are called in the app when deleting a record.

Then you can add a simple customization to trap the BO/method before it executes and add your own "MessageBox.Show("Are you sure you want to delete record?" [Y/N])" (My syntax may be wrong) in that 'before' Sub for the BO method Case.

Rob Brown



--- On Thu, 9/11/08, lindalowney <llowney@...> wrote:

From: lindalowney <llowney@...>
Subject: [Vantage] Deleting material or lines on a quote: Vantage 8.03.403D
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 11:14 AM






Hi Group,

Sometimes when we delete a material or delete a line the whole quote
gets deleted and has to be recreated from scratch.

Do any of you know of a way to pop up a message on the screen to let
the user know what Vantage is intending to delete?

Regards,
Linda