I cant' attest to the quality of the screen designs (they looked good to
me). However, I know that for instance, if you want to enter Oklahoma's
initials, OK, into a pull-down on the WEB, you have to enter OO instead of
OK (O then K will get you Kansas). I did mention that the screen entry
testers were from the old school (where OK was Oklahoma), so I can see that
some of it's an issue of training. No doubt a new entry person who is used
to the WEB's version of OO for Oklahoma would have no trouble at all
(assuming that the new entry person can understand that the customer meant
Oklahoma when they wrote OK into the State field of the source document).
8-)
Ray Shahan
Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
well preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming:
-- WOW!!! What a Ride! --
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Osborne [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 3:37 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]; Shahan, Ray
> Subject: Re: Old vs. New or Browser vs. View
>
> Once someone is used to a GUI based data entry screen, should it not be
> just
> as fast? If the screen is written an intuitive manner, couldn't one use
> TAB
> to advance fields and pulldowns should advance to the proper item when the
>
> user types in the value the same way better web browsers work? If a GUI
> screen is written properly, an experienced user should not have to reach
> for
> the mouse.
>
> Pete
>
> On March 8, 2004 04:22 pm, Shahan, Ray wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was watching some testing being done on the latest in
> technology
> > <ahem>. The new screens are GUI/Browser-based/add-latest-term-here
> > screens, and as I watched, I saw a couple of interesting situations.
> One
> > was the entry person using the mouse to ENTER the screen (remove hand
> from
> > keyboard, grab mouse, move mouse to ENTER, and click), but the other was
> > really a gaping issue. Since this is a new system, they are using some
> > entry folks that are very good at what they do on the old system...these
> > folks however, had issues with the drop-down menus for State, Dates,
> > Company Codes fields in the new screens. They were flustered by the
> time
> > it took to navigate these pull-down menus because they were used to VIEW
> > screens and heads-down data entry. When these folks voiced their
> concern
> > over the time it would now take to key an order received by mail/FAX,
> they
> > were told that the new screens would be more accurate since you couldn't
> > key bad info in, thus the time to key orders would be quicker overall
> (no
> > one mentioned that just because you have a drop-down menu doesn't mean
> you
> > can't still pick the wrong selection).
> >
> > So, has anyone else ran into this and if so, did the keying time
> > for batch input actually get quicker or slower?
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Ray Shahan
> >
> > Life is not a journey to the grave with the
> > intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
> > well preserved body, but rather to skid in
> > broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
> > and loudly proclaiming:
> >
> > -- WOW!!! What a Ride! --
> >
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