>Thought I would solicit ideas for a feature I am thinking of adding to an app.
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>The users of this app work "intermittently" over a day or so on a "file". They start working on a file for a customer, generate some quotes and then these then go off to their checking department for review etc. Then they get them back often a few hours later with either corrections or the okay to send out the good copies. If there are corrections, these are made and sent back to "checking" once again.
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>And they do this on dozens of files over the course of the morning/early afternoon and then hopefully they get approval later in the day.
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>The waste of time as I see it is that when the quotes come back from checking, they have to spend time finding the client again, opening that screen, opening up quotes etc. And since they can have a dozen or more of these in play on any one day, they do this over and over (and the native VFP ability to minimize a form does not show enough to be useful).
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>So I am thinking of some sort of toolbar that they can "drop" current "files" (forms) on to, it then shows enough of the file to identify it (e.g. "Gostick, File 12345") for future use. I would then either just close the form or hide it. When they then need to cycle back to this file, they click the toolbar to launch that file instead of having to search for it. I would also need a way for them to remove the file from the toolbar (i.e. once the final quotes are sent to the client, they probably will not need to work on it again for a few days).
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>Is the toolbar control maybe the best way to accomplish this? I don't know the pitfalls of it. I read a short article on it in the kilo-fox but have not read much more.
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>Any other ideas would also be appreciated. Oh, I would also probably have to save this information out to a user preferences file so that the "saved" files are there the next morning - but that is fairly straightforward.

The concept of a dashboard could help. In here, it is based on user preferences. So, as they work, the dashboard adjusts itself accordingly. Thus, based on the user setting, you would know on what they are currently working on and have that available on a click of a button, and, most importantly, always visible.