I have 3 custom Entity Screens that I use. Kitchen Display, Returns, Check Schedule. I Want buttons to them when in ticket view so my employees have easy access to them without having to hit main menu (I disable this for them). I know I can add entity selection buttons to it.
Here is my question. I would love the option to take the word Select out of my buttons, and I would love to be able to edit the color/background of the buttons.
I would also love to be able to insert an automation command button while viewing these custom screens so my Employee can go back to ticket view without hitting Main Menu.
Since you have separate entity types it is possible to do it without implementing additional features. But it will need next update. I’ve starred the topic but please bump it after next release so I don’t forget to show you how.
No @QMcKay we don’t have Show Entity Screen action yet but I don’t know if I’ll be able to resist that
Creating a Show Entity Screen is something complex. SambaPOS needs to know the reason of switching screens to be able to navigate correctly. For example coming back to ticket after Choose Customer > Edit Customer > Select Customer is something different than doing it while there is no ticket open.
For @Jesse’s case executing Change Ticket Entity action, setting entity type parameter to entity type and leaving entity name blank will switch to related custom screen. Also executing Display Ticket action with 0 parameter will come back to ticket. If we remove references from ticket type to custom screen entities we won’t see Select XXX buttons.
…and you’ll also have better control. For example you can set Visible State to Status= to display these buttons only when there is no active ticket.
That won’t happen soon but maybe we can improve html viewer to execute automation commands when specific types of links visited I’ll add it to my ideas list.
@emre, is there a trick I can use to get back into Design Mode. I try right-click everywhere, but it only brings up Properties, Settings, etc, or HTML controls!
What has happend QMcKay is you have took up the entire screen size. You can enter design mode but the area to enable it is very small now. Click around the edges until you find it. I ran into that too. Maybe if we had a keyboard shortcut to enter design mode… it would prevent this.
It happened to me when I was designing my TimeClock viewer. I ended up reducing the size of widget just a tad to leave me a small border to right click.
Right clicking on the 1px wide vertical line next to left red line might work. If it does not work you can update dimensions from Widgets table. Implementing a shortcut buton is a great idea
BTW @emre Display Ticket is not working. I can return if I use Create Ticket but then I would have to close it and apparently if I put Create ticket and then Close Ticket actions it will not close it for some reason. But close button works just fine.
I do not mind using Create ticket… it just seemed like a bad way to do what I wanted.
I see why it wont close the ticket… because the command was hit before ticket existed. I would have to close ticket after creation… and that wont work.
I am wondering if I did something wrong so that Display Ticket will not bring it back to Ticket. I set it to ticket Id 0
Yea give me a moment. Just had a very strange behavior… accidently started skype… closed it… then all of a sudden all my command buttons on my ticket view disabled… I closed skype closed out completely and restarted samba… they work again… lol wierd… must have been a database issue… im thinking SKype used a port it shouldnt have.
