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With html5 forms and cloud computing, long held paradigms of data acquisition and data entry are changing, and WRbil uses a concept called Lists to advance the state of the art in data entry and management. Wyn Rocket List is a tool for populating drop down menus.

Some people remember checking out at the department store, and the credit card would be verified against a printed list of stolen credit cards. Visa and MasterCard would send a printed book to stores periodically and it was up to the clerk to check your card. The booklet was nothing but row after row of credit card numbers, and the entire book was in credit card number order.

The state of the art has advanced, instead of books now the credit card number is encrypted and information is exchanged via the internet directly with Visa and Mastercard. Stolen credit cards are identified and entire transactions are performed.

In the late 19th century, the United States Census Bureau adopted Herman Hollerith’s Electronic Punch Card and Tabulator to assist in the collection and processing of data. Time held techniques evolved to input and manage large volumes of data, some still stand.

Like the credit card example, modern technology has vastly changed the way data is entered. The Hollerith card no longer requires a cryptic customer id field, limited to five columns and carefully punched on a machine with no backspace and the hope that the number of transpositions and errors subordinates an acceptable level of fault.

Likewise, rather than populate a dropdown box with eight thousand part numbers or 32,000 customers, Rocket Lists allows users and managers to create lists for data entry efficiency. This aptly speeds entry and lowers the rate of error in the cloud to human interface boundary.

Lists relate to your WRbil company database, a list is a set of keys for records (rows) in major database files.

List Types

• Session Lists
• Saved Lists
• Assigned Lists

Sessions Lists are the most common type of list. They are active for a specific user for as long as they are logged in. There is, in practice, one hierarchical Session List per logged in user, which is null for users that have not added items to the list. If an order, customer, part, vehicle, workcenter or employee is added to the list, that item actually lives on a sub-list of the main Session List that holds orders, customers, parts, vehicles, workcenters or employees.

Saved lists are Sessions Lists that have been named and saved by a user. They may be retrieved from the users’ saved list folder at which time they become added to Session Lists.

Assigned Lists are created by admins, and can be assigned to parametric locations or saved as company wide saved lists to be retrieved by any user. There is no such thing as a private Assigned List. There is no such thing as an Assigned List with restricted read access. Any Assigned List can be activated by any user.