Makes sense. Which brings you back to the main thing, if you can find someone already trained to use a 10 key (a volunteer accountant? *grin* ) their accuracy should be very high. Worst case have guidlines to help people get in a rhythm. As you say, 'smart' people tend to do their own thing because its 'faster' but don't account for the time to fix the oops factor. If you can implement your visual feedback system, this does become much less of an issue, something pops up on screen, fix it.
When i do data entry (renewing insurance information in a databvase) it was a matter of building habits, forcing myself on EVERY entry to check the dates, double check policy number, see if rates have changed and adjust, confirm the new starting date for the next policy term, save, move on. You can't program conscientiousness so it comes down to doing the best you can on validation, and having trustworthy people. The 2nd part is always the hardest. (believe me, fixing years of back data can suck. Luckily you only have to worry about a very small data set) _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
