Improve Project
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There is no technical problem or error in my project. This question is about how improve my project to be more user friendly. Let me explain about my project: There are many tables in DB and I have created a CRUD Form for each table; There is Form that contains some buttons and every button opens a single CRUD Form. Now imagine that user want to register an student and the user is very busy because of large number of students; so the user should open and close many of Form from the board just for entering a single student's information. Do you have any idea to improve my project?
Meysam
Have separate "Save and Close" and "Save and add another" buttons?
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Have separate "Save and Close" and "Save and add another" buttons?
You know that in DB there is a table for each existence. Person, PhoneType, Phone, Register, Class, Teacher, etc; and for each of them there is a CRUD Form. If one of them will cancel so I would cancel all of the insertion before the current Form. Did you get what I mean? In other word I should update all of them if the last Form's DialogResult equals DialogResult.OK and reject all changes if it is DialogResult.Cancel.
Meysam
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You know that in DB there is a table for each existence. Person, PhoneType, Phone, Register, Class, Teacher, etc; and for each of them there is a CRUD Form. If one of them will cancel so I would cancel all of the insertion before the current Form. Did you get what I mean? In other word I should update all of them if the last Form's DialogResult equals DialogResult.OK and reject all changes if it is DialogResult.Cancel.
Meysam
Meysam Tolouee wrote:
Did you get what I mean?
No. But now I get the feeling that what you have is quite dreadful. I'm glad you're trying to improve it.
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There is no technical problem or error in my project. This question is about how improve my project to be more user friendly. Let me explain about my project: There are many tables in DB and I have created a CRUD Form for each table; There is Form that contains some buttons and every button opens a single CRUD Form. Now imagine that user want to register an student and the user is very busy because of large number of students; so the user should open and close many of Form from the board just for entering a single student's information. Do you have any idea to improve my project?
Meysam
Meysam Tolouee wrote:
I have created a CRUD Form for each table
That is a very bad idea; it's not how the user thinks of the task and the schema should not be so exposed to the user. I also fear for what happens when the user deletes records improperly (not that delete should be allowed anyway).
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Meysam Tolouee wrote:
Did you get what I mean?
No. But now I get the feeling that what you have is quite dreadful. I'm glad you're trying to improve it.
Let's go forward step by step. First the user will open and enter personal info about the first student in CustomerUI then he/she will close that. Now the entries will update at FormClosing by user's confirmation. Second step the user is going to enter information about class registration. Now consider that the student doesn't want to register any more. At thiss time there is a record in "Person" table in DB that is useless. Was it clear?
Meysam
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Meysam Tolouee wrote:
I have created a CRUD Form for each table
That is a very bad idea; it's not how the user thinks of the task and the schema should not be so exposed to the user. I also fear for what happens when the user deletes records improperly (not that delete should be allowed anyway).
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There is no technical problem or error in my project. This question is about how improve my project to be more user friendly. Let me explain about my project: There are many tables in DB and I have created a CRUD Form for each table; There is Form that contains some buttons and every button opens a single CRUD Form. Now imagine that user want to register an student and the user is very busy because of large number of students; so the user should open and close many of Form from the board just for entering a single student's information. Do you have any idea to improve my project?
Meysam
Meysam Tolouee wrote:
This question is about how improve my project to be more user friendly.
Have you considered asking your users[^]? Joel also has a nice article on dogfooding, well worth the read.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There is no technical problem or error in my project. This question is about how improve my project to be more user friendly. Let me explain about my project: There are many tables in DB and I have created a CRUD Form for each table; There is Form that contains some buttons and every button opens a single CRUD Form. Now imagine that user want to register an student and the user is very busy because of large number of students; so the user should open and close many of Form from the board just for entering a single student's information. Do you have any idea to improve my project?
Meysam
Sounds like you’re talking about a “transaction”. Instead of multiple forms, it seems like a single form with multiple “tabs” of related information would be more effective. Use the form to create a transaction for registering the student by first storing all data that is entered “locally”; in a local copy of the database or as XML on a local drive. Cancelling the transaction is simple; you don’t commit to the “production” database and just delete the local copy. If the transaction is complete and the student is to be registered, you post all the local data to the server in one step and then delete the local copy.
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Sounds like you’re talking about a “transaction”. Instead of multiple forms, it seems like a single form with multiple “tabs” of related information would be more effective. Use the form to create a transaction for registering the student by first storing all data that is entered “locally”; in a local copy of the database or as XML on a local drive. Cancelling the transaction is simple; you don’t commit to the “production” database and just delete the local copy. If the transaction is complete and the student is to be registered, you post all the local data to the server in one step and then delete the local copy.
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There is no technical problem or error in my project. This question is about how improve my project to be more user friendly. Let me explain about my project: There are many tables in DB and I have created a CRUD Form for each table; There is Form that contains some buttons and every button opens a single CRUD Form. Now imagine that user want to register an student and the user is very busy because of large number of students; so the user should open and close many of Form from the board just for entering a single student's information. Do you have any idea to improve my project?
Meysam
I'd implement a menu bar &/or a toolbar. So no matter where the user is in the app (unless in a modal form) they can add a student quickly by selecting the "Add Student..." menu item. I would also include a shortcut for the menu item. I would add all the common tasks a user needs in the menu bar.
"You get that on the big jobs."