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| A random parking lot for windows and reports. Button size and location suggest order, but are actually meaningless. | Tip of the iceberg. Below lies a well-thought-out architecture of elements. User goes to specific area for task in mind. |
| Client Tracking |
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| Curiously, fields are stacked in a single column (note scrollbar!). Subforms were being added to handle what could not fit here. | Tabular design allows all kinds of data to be included here. This became the heart of the database. |
| Monthly Stats |
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| Type in county, then name of month desired. AND dates for first and last of that month. Press some buttons in a mysterious sequence. Do some math. More buttons. Subform opens. | Check data on subform; make adjustments. | Report generated. Better get it right, as each month's new data writes over previous month's. |
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| Select county and month desired. Click a button to open subform. | Check data on subform; make adjustments. Entire fiscal year's data is preserved, and displayed at once. Selected month is hilighted. | Report generated. No rollover procedure to deal with. | |||
| Tracking of client services |
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| Each service a client receives is added as a new record, in à-la-carte style. | A similar interface builds a library of commonly used
service-provider combinations.
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| Updating non-client data |
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| A sub-menu grants edit power over all peripheral data. Formerly done through table-tampering. Interfaces now protect data. | A sample edit window: this one for Physicians' data. |