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Message started by John Bierrie on 01/21/04 at 02:23:58

Title: Usage Display
Post by John Bierrie on 01/21/04 at 02:23:58

I know that my purchasing agent would love to take Lynn to lunch (for a week!) for adding the usage screen to the inventory area... I'd take her to lunch (Lynn) for TWO WEEKS if three other items could be included:

1) An "average" monthly usage, based on the previous 12 months. I know it is easy enough to do with a calculator, but that step could just as easilly be removed (easy for me to say!!) and made part of the program. :-)

2) A "graphical representation" of the usage chart. Off to the right of the month to month list is a lot of "dead" space. Why not add a vertical line graph showing the actual monthly usage for the past 12 months? Want to get REAL FANCY?... Add an average line to it (based on the average to that date) and we'd get to see "trending" as well!! :-) I know, I know, I ask for alot... just trying to take the time out of doing all these second echelon tasks that this sort of software should be so good at!! Heck... since DBA loves "X's and O's" so much (see scheduling), a vertical version of that would even be good (I can't believe I said that!!)...

3) I can't remember....

Thanks!

Ohhh.... yes I can.... Can the forums actually notify us when a message is left in response to one of ours? I keep selecting it, but never see or hear from it even when someone responds. Ok... different topic. :-)!

Title: Re: Usage Display
Post by aricon on 01/21/04 at 09:34:07

John,

Just something to keep in mind as far as graphs and such reporting...this is more easily done in MS Access as it is much more flexible and you can then use the OLE linking capabilities in Access to send the data out to Excel or Word or you can take an Access "snapshot" and email that snapshot to others in your organization, etc. TAS does not allow these capabilities.

We have done extensive work in this area and have made some VERY nice searching and reporting applications with MS Access.

Title: our purchaing Re: Usage Display
Post by cswann on 01/19/05 at 10:16:26

I agree with John our purchasing manager states it would be heaven to see current and past trends for more accurate projections and be able to print them out.

Title: Re: Usage Display
Post by Mike_Habich on 01/19/05 at 11:45:31

1. Monthly average would be nice.

2. I'd rather use the blank space to go back another 12 months (2 years total) than for graphs.

Title: Re: Usage Display
Post by Lynn Pantic on 01/19/05 at 12:35:50

Actually, while Classic DBA has limitations regarding graphics and porting information out to other applications, all this and more can be done in Evo. The average and maybe an X-O style text graph could be done in classic. I will take a look.

Title: Re: Usage Display
Post by cmsk on 09/29/05 at 04:38:06

You can do scheduling graphs in Evo?!?!