Thanks Doug

You reminded me that he also wants to be able to attach emails
basically he wants to attach anything and everything but the kitchen
sink to the log.  That sure seems to make it harder.

Marc



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Doug Hamilton 
  To: RBASE-L Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:45 PM
  Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Tech support call log


  John Minyo demoed a While You Were Out (R:WYWO) at the 04 Fall Dev Con.  It 
was a slick system for taking phone messages with the usual date, time, purpose 
of call, caller info (stored in a table), message, etc and email capabilities 
that would probably serve as a sound basis for getting a jump start on 
developing something like a tech support log.  The main menu had options for 
entering new msgs, reviewing open or closed or all messages.  It was designed 
for 7.1 ...we're now at 7.6 - "Imagine the possibilities".

  Doug

  Marc wrote:

    Does anyone have a tech support call log program?
    A friend that works for a major oil company says they are using
    Access to log the calls.  
    First they talk to the customer, they hand write the stuff down then give
    the paper to another lady who uses Access to store the calls.

    The access program does not connect the their main server DB
    they type in the custnum, customer name, address .... for each line
    and there may be 4 lined per call.  Talk about a silly setup, even I
    could come up with something better than that <g>
    I do not know what the main db is written in but they use SAP.
    They also have years so data achived I assume because Access
    it too whimpy to handle  the volume of data.

    I keep telling this guy to use Rbase but ....he does not make the decissions
    but he is the one writting up the wish list for the dept.

    If anyone has a demo they can send me I will be happy to pass it on to him.

    One thing he wants to be able to do is store / attach documents to the call 
log
    things such as screen captures, 1099 forms, spread sheets.....
    I think he might be OK with printing the spread sheet then scanning it then 
attaching
    it.


    thanks
    Marc



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