Thursday, August 9, 2012

Sorting Option for Building Maintenance Screens

The Building Inspection Maintenance Screen and the Building Fee Detail Maintenance Screen now both have a Sort button in them. This means you no longer have to worry about the order in which you enter these list items in the maintenance screens. You can rearrange the list at any time. The order that you choose is then carried forward when you start a new Building permit and the Inspection Details and Fee Details are populated for that record. There has always been a sort option in the permit Inspection Details and Fee Details screens and the new maintenance option uses the same Sort Screen to do it's thing.

Property Screen Efficiency

I wrote earlier in the summer about trying to squeeze more speed out of ZonePro. To that end I have published some updates that make numerous small coding changes. Most of the changes involve taking code out of the main ZonePro program and app files and putting that code in the SQL database instead. This means you can make more efficient SQL calls and the SQL database can be more efficient in producing results. In this pass I made changes to the way the Property Street search function operates, and the way the Application counts at the bottom of the screen are called. Typically the kind of speed increases for changes like this are measured in milliseconds rather than seconds, but every little bit helps.