Re: Large numbers of Customers

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Eric ...

Re: Your question about 5000 or more customers.

My customer DB has 4000 customers.  My observations follow:

- Speed of the DB is adequate, but I had problems with browsers.

- The pull-down list on the invoice form is so long that Konqueror 
misbehaves.  Transitioning from the Invoice screen to the Print 
Invoice screen hangs the CPU for 45 seconds!  So, I must use mozilla.

- Finding the customer in the pull-down list is a chore.  I would 
rather have no pull-down list, search for the customer in the 
customer search form, then go to the invoice form and have the 
correct customer waiting for me.  I modified Version 1.6 to do this, 
but have not yet gotten around to modifying Version 1.8.  The change 
allowed Konqueror to work quickly, and was user-friendly.

- I also modified Version 1.6 so that the new Invoice would display 
the last customer created, unless the Invoice screen was entered via 
the customer search screen.  In the latter case, the Invoice screen 
displayed the last customer looked-at, which I feel is an important 
usability concept.

Much of the credit for these mods goes to Dieter, who was helpful in 
suggestion ways to do it.

... Reed