[AccessD] Another article some of you might like

Hey Susan
Nice work.
As we all know the IT people are a different breed.  Ran into a 
situation about a year ago, A fellow at a company and myself developed 
an application to meet the current needs of vast majority of the 
employees for data recording and reporting (before no standardization, 
some did them in Word, Excel, NotePad, paper, etc.).  It was well 
received but it p....d of the IT people and they said there were 
developing something very similiar and in house and they wouldn't be 
using ACCESS to do it (still haven't seen the application but it is 
promised).

In developing the program we followed the Access developer's rules for 
providing the user with an clean, easy to use and intuitive program, 
basically as they say a "no brainer".

Anyway about a month ago we were able to talk to one of their 
developers, we were amazed they had never contacted us before to discuss 
what people liked about our program ("rather than them re-inventing the 
wheel").  We would have gladly shared.

One of the questions we asked and the response we got made my jaw drop.
There is a field linked to a table of about 350 codes, in our program 
(as any Access developer knows how to do), we filter the combo box based 
on the user's selection of the previous field, thus avoiding any data 
entry errors. The user can only select a code associated with the 
previous field.
We asked them if they were doing the same thing, they said no they would 
be displaying all 350 codes in a pulldown, it would be the user's 
responsibility to select appropriate code (I hope this is not true).

I am anxiously waiting to see their program, if it is good, praise will 
be given and worth the wait, if not I will just keep my mouth shut.

Anyway my little story, not trying to start a "trip down memory lane" 
responses, it was just in all my years I have never seen such arrogance.





Susan Harkins wrote:

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