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Fast Track
What is Fast Track?
The Item Manager window has been designed for everyday maintenance of the item catalogue. As with most designs however, the most efficient way of operating with one need in mind is not necessary the most efficient from a different perspective.
The Fast Track system was designed to assist in manually cataloguing a lot of items at an increased speed, building on keyboard-only data entry skills.
Fast Track is accessed by selecting the [Fast Track] toolbar icon at the top of the Item Manager window. Depending upon which operating system you are using, the Fast Track window will appear either as a separate window, or (on the Mac) a slide-down panel.
Users of the Fast Track system enter data using the keyboard only (the mouse is not restricted, but using the mouse in conjunction with the keyboard will reduce speed of data entry), pressing [RETURN] at when completed to trigger the [Save] command button.
When saved, the record will appear in the left-hand catalogue list and the Fast Track system is re-displayed ready for the next record. Selectthe [Cancel] command button to exit Fast Track.
Data Entry
