Colleague Release 17 Highlights

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Colleague Release 17Highlights

• Diane Jacobs
• 412-237-3123

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Highlights

• This presentation shows you the new features in
  the User Interface (UI) for Colleague Release 17
• Tree Menu Windows
• Save All/ Cancel All
• Word Wrap in Comments
• More LookUp features
• Additional Notes to Testing Teams

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Tree Menu Windows
Click the Tree button to hide or show the tree
menu when a screen is open
When you first log on, the UI window will look
much like it did in R16
When you enter a screen, the screen appears in
the right hand window, with the tree menu on the
left
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Save All/ Cancel All
SAVE ALL
CANCEL ALL
Now when you detail onto another screen, you can
save or cancel out of all screens at once just
click on Save All or Cancel All
Make sure you want to save you will NOT get the
Update-Cancel-Return window when you use these
buttons
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Word Wrap in Comments
Most comments and description fields now have
word wrapping capability. Exceptions are those
that have no Detail.
If previous text (entered in R16) is found that
exceeds the line length, an Alert will ask you if
you want to reformat text. Choose Y for yes.
You can also cut, copy and paste from Word or
other sources directly into these fields! Use the
menus, or right-click, or Ctrl-X (cut), Ctrl-C
(copy), Ctrl-V (paste)
There is even an undo! (right-click)
To automatically sign comments with your name,
date and time, click on Edit/ Date/Time/Login
Stamp (The key will do the same thing)
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Better LookUp for Some Fields
Fields that were tiny, but still required data
entry, will now provide you a lookup window
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Direct Access
If you are in a screen for a particular record,
you can go directly to another screen for this
record.
Click on File/ Direct Access or F8 and click
Update
Type the mnemonic of the screen you want to
access (use CAPS)
The new screen will display for this student
when you save from the second screen, your
original screen is still active for entering your
next record.
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Additional Notes
The last screen in canned reports has additional
fields
You may enter Y here to execute in the
background enter I for Background Execution Type
When testing, please use NO as you have in the
past. You will want to view that records are
found.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TEST THESE BATCH PROCESSES AT
THIS TIME WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THESE
FUNCTIONALITIES AT A LATER TIME.
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Additional Notes

• You can now hold more than 1 transcript to the
  print browser for local printing

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HappyTesting!