Sometimes the user/client's in-house PMs are hyper-retentive<g>. Sometimes they feel it would be easier (less work) to support a replacement (or new) interface if it behaved more like their legacy (old) system. Sometimes they just want to micro-manage and stir the pot. Sometimes they just want you to jump when they say jump. It seems your interface is simpler. You're just not able to sell it.
Rework your pitch or find middle ground.

My war story: I developed some interfaces for a local shop. The "Save" button remained disabled until the contents of the entry controls were changed. The PL, a carreer IT employee, wined it would confuse the user. My position was: If nothing has changed - there is nothing to save. My middle ground was to enable the "Save". But, data would only write if a change had occurred. IOW - It looked like the PL's requirement, but behaved efficiently, like I wanted.

Moral: The ability to click a button that does nothing is more important (in dinosaur engineering) than not having the ability to click a button that does nothing <bg>.

Go figure !

>Number of you wanted to see what the boss wanted... Well, I could but there is much of forms, via, 3 steps to finally get to the edit screen, whereby in that screen I have, the user goes right into it and then choose what they want to do.
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>Boss: (1) menu, click on forms and click on Authorizations, (2) pick what you want to do a search on (3) pick more specific person and sometimes (4) pick from this another list, then (5) finally at the Authorization Entry Screen, where can Add, Edit, PLUS Find which takes right back to step (2)!?
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>Mine: (1) menu, click on forms and click on Authorizations, (2) Authorization Entry Screen, from there, can do Add, Edit, Find, etc. I also had a Print which she didn't want, but was documented in our proposal that she stressed on.
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>< SNIPPED > Sorry, I typed too long of a story of what happened all along, but told it before and am stopping here.
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>Chuck
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>>>I just finish with a project my boss wanted in her and his ways (still have to do the recording locking next). As I looked back in my old design, it is much better layout. I don't see why it was rejected? Was it ME (that they want to pick on me) or it's the layout?? So, I like to ask if anyone in here can take a quick look at a form I did (JPEG, 51KB) and comment on what you think of it's layout. If there is any need for improvements, I like to know. Reply in here or email, and I will email you the file, then you can comment in here or email.
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>>>Chuck
>>Sure - but send both - your bossies' JPEG and your JPEG. Just click the "envelope" by my name, and attach!