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Business scenario

The architecture of the SportsPro Order Tracking System reflects a possible solution to a realistic business problem. Imagine that you are the general manager of a growing sporting goods distribution company. You find that your sales people are spending too much time responding to customers’ inquiries about the status of existing orders and too little time generating new orders. Your solution is to institute an order tracking help desk to enter the new orders for the sales people and to field customer inquiries.

You start designing an application for users to quickly look up customer information. You want the application structured so the tasks that users need do most often are the easiest to accomplish. You determine that users most often need to:

Enter new orders.
Search for a customer.
Enter a new customer.
Change customer information, such as an address or phone number.
Check inventory quantities.
Search for an order.
Check on the shipping status of an order as a whole.
Retrieve information about specific items that were ordered.
Modify lines in an order.

After you know what tasks users will do with the application, you know what information they will need. From that, you create a database that contains the information you need to query for the tasks. Once you have your database, you can begin the development phases.

To begin examining the Order Tracking System, choose the Order Tracking button from the SportsPro main window. The main window of the Order Tracking System appears:

Note: You might encounter display problems with the application screens if you have your display set to large fonts and a resolution of 800x600. As a rule, if you use large or small fonts, you should use a higher resolution setting, such as 1024x768. If you do encounter display problems with the application screens, try changing your display settings.

The main window is a SmartWindow that is divided into three parts:

Customer section
Order section
Order Line section

Table 2–11 describes the major objects used in the main window of the Order Tracking System.

Table 2–11: Components of the Order Tracking System main window

Object or filename	Object type	Function
worder.w	SmartWindow	Serves as a container for the other objects in the module.
m_Item_Maintenance	Menu-item	Launches wmntitem.w, which is described in Table 2–7.
m_Inventory_Trans	Menu-item	Launches winvtrans.w. The Inventory Transfer section is described below in Table 2–15.
m_Set_Application _Language	Menu-item	Launches wlang.w. The Set Application Language section is described below in Table 2–16.
dcust	SDO	Queries the Customer table to retrieve all customer records for the selected query.
vcust	SDV	Displays the contents of several fields of the selected customer record.
bfndcust	Button	Launches wfndcust.w, passing it the handle of dcust. Table 2–3 describes wfndcust.w in detail.
bmntcust	Button	Launches wmntcust.w, passing it the handle of dcust. The Customer Maintenance section is described below in Table 2–12.
dorder	SDO	Queries the Order table to retrieve all order records for the selected query.
dordlne	SDO	Queries the OrderLine table to retrieve all order line records for the selected query.
vorder	SDV	Displays the contents of several fields from the Order and Salesrep tables for the selected order record.
dsalesrep	SDO	Queries the Salesrep table to retrieve all sales rep records for the selected query.
dynselect	SmartSelect	Allows the user to navigate through the records in dsalesrep.
CtrlFrame	OCX	Provides navigation control for the order records.
CtrlFrame-2	OCX	Provides navigation control for the order records.
bcreord	Button	Launches wmntord.w, passing it the handles of dcust, dorder, and dordlne. The Order Entry/Maintenance section is described below in Table 2–13.
bfndord	Button	Launches wfndord2.w, passing it the handle of dorder. The Find Order section is described below in Table 2–14.
bmntord	Button	Launches wmntord.w, passing it the handles of dcust, dorder, and dordlne. The Order Entry/Maintenance section is described below in Table 2–13.
folder	SmartFolder	Organizes the display of objects onto two logical pages, shown as the Browser and Detail tabs.
bordlne2	SDB	Allows the user to select an order line record.
vordlne	SDV	Displays the contents of several fields of the selected order line record.
pnavico	SmartPanel (navigation)	Controls navigation for the result set from vordlne.
sports2000.hlp	Help Text File	Provide help text for the buttons in the main window of the sample application.