Re: Link Submit Ideas

See,
your comment :

Why? Users are used to buttons, know what buttons do, and expect links to
do something differently. Especially if the button says "Modify this
record" or something similar.

Is typical of the problem. You haven't set in endless meetings, met with
users, run thru requirements, etc yet you feel fully qualified to judge. Why
is it so hard to accept a stated requirement?

In this case, the users in a form, click one of multiple links to go to a
subform and fill out information regarding that link, submit, and return to
the original form without losing any data. The links are currently links and
the company does not want the confusion of presenting a change to them of
buttons. Changing the style to look like a link solves that issue.

You seem to want to argue the requirements and not help resolve the problem.
I know people submit idiot stuff and newbies try to get homework done. That
does not mean an assumption should be made about everyone here. People
should be able to state a problem without having to justify the problem.
That is my issue! I don't need to justify this to anyone except the ones who
made the requirements.

Mica

"Randy Webb" <HikksNotAtHome@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mica Cooper said the following on 7/5/2006 4:18 PM:
Randy,

That is what I need. I have stated my need and it seemed clear (to me).

What is clear to you is not always clear to the reader. And at least 3
readers said it wasn't clear to them (myself included).

I need to let the user modify text fields of an entire form, click a
link, pop up a page, fill and submit that page, then return to the parent
page with all of the user data.

I have to ask the question of "Why?" when you say you have to use a popup.
But that is another question all together.

I will make the button appear to look like a link with CSS.

Why? Users are used to buttons, know what buttons do, and expect links to
do something differently. Especially if the button says "Modify this
record" or something similar.

I don't know why this was so hard to communicate except that perhaps this
is just not a common thing to do and everyone assumed I didn't really
need to do this.

It is not uncommon. What was uncommon was your explanation.

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