Micros RES - POS Check Viewer beta - Testers required

[MicrosPOSTools]

In my spare time i've developed a tool which i find useful. It allows you to lookup a micros check based on the check number, business date, employee first and last name, employee number or a combination of the above. It shows you all the detail of the check. Menu items, discounts, voids, the void reason, service charges, tenders and references.

It allows me to find the details of a check without having to scroll through days of journals and without needed something like MyMicros.

The tool has been tested by myself on RES4.9. It has been developed to work with all versions of 3700 3.x, 4.x and 5.x. It would be nice to get some feedback on it working with 3.x (if anyone still has this?) and 5.x.

This is a read only tool. It does not change anything in the Micros database.

If anyone else wants to try it out you can get it here [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.microspostools.com/tools.html[/url]

While its in beta im issuing unlimited 30 day licenses. Licenses can be requested using the form on the above website. If your license expires after 30 days and the product is still in beta then just request a few license.

Send me your feedback using this forum or using the feedback page on the above website.

 

[pmegan]

Looks like you're off to a nice start. Here are a few suggestions from my first look:

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[li]Make the SQL credentials box pop up only if a connection can't be opened. The username/pass is stored in the registry anyway so there's no need to display it every time. Just make the PC Application login a separate form.[/li]
[li]Encrypt the SQL credentials that are in the registry.[/li]
[li]The check detail side needs some header info. Employee, table#, etc... As it is now the only way to tell who owned the check is searching by employee.[/li]
[li]Skip items with $0 and no name, it would save a lot of space.[/li]
[li]It might be better using a TextBox or RichTextBox than a DataGridView for the check details; just format the text from your filtered BindingSource or DataView. This way you'd be able to copy/paste directly from the results.[/li]
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And some possible features.

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[li]Our managers all have their own windows profile and we use windows authentication. It would be nice if that option was added to the login options.[/li]
[li]Searching by table, payment type and discount type would be helpful options.[/li]
[li]Indenting the condiments would make it easier to read, and if you're going to add check printing an option to skip non-priced condiments would help.[/li]

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[MicrosPOSTools]

Excellent feedback. Thanks.

Ya i need to put a lot of work into the check detail section. I want to get it as much like an actual printed check as possible. At the moment im just dumping the query contents into the datagridview. I plan on changing that to add some formatting.

Good idea about the login stages and encryption in the registry.

Searching by table, payment type and discounts should be fairly straight forward.

Ill add these to my to do list.

Thanks.

 

[pmegan]

I generally put stuff like Major/Family group filters into a bound combobox. It would be pretty easy to do the same with the payments, discounts and tables. I'm actually upgrading one of my programs today so it's all fresh in my mind.