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RE: Ability to do data entry without the use of the mouse in GEMS.
Yes, bulk data
entry is definitely a weak part of GEMS. It isn't just races either
-- districts, precincts, and their relationships suffer the same
shortcomings. This is one reason that people stick with their
voter-registration systems for data entry.
There are a bunch of
ways this could be improved. Allow table edits in the list view like you
suggest is one. Better organization of the editor dialogs and tabbing
though fields is another. "Quick Editors" without all the buttons and
options is yet another.
The brutal truth
though, unfortunately, is that these improvements are far down the TODO list,
and getting further. What we have works, and works pretty good. The
marginal benefit is a couple of hours of data entry and some carpal
tunnel. This falls into the same category as saving report
settings.
Anyway, consider it
on the TODO list. Really, we'd like to see it improved. If
development gets a chance to stop and smell the roses for a couple of
months sometime in the future, hopefully we can get this and a lot of other
pending niceties into the system. If I had to guess, that probably won't
happen before this November, but hey you never know.
Ken
Jurisidiction:
All Accounts
Date
Requested: April 26, 2001
Date
Required: Before November General
Elections
Requested
on behalf of Larry Calvert at GBS. Eliminate the need to use the
mouse when entering offices and
candidates. You have to switch between the mouse and the keyboard
to enter
candidates for each office. This slows down the data entry process considerably.
Perhaps we can do all the
basic data entry of both Races and Candidates within the Tree View with a hot
key, like Insert. Once you have Race highlighted within the Tree View,
you can hit the Insert hot key and up pops a small field just for the Race
Title, then you enter in the Race Title, hit enter to save, and then start
over with the Insert hot key for the next race. Once you have all the
Races added, you then can select the Race and get into the
Properties Window. As for the Candidates, we could add a Candidate
Tree View under each Race that has been added, then do the same procedure for
adding candidates with the Insert hot key; and same process as before for
Properties Window.
Thanks,
JEFF HINTZ
Global Election
Systems