Client Dialog

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CLIENT DIALOG

The client dialog is where you enter details about a client. You get to this dialog by either selecting New Client, Edit Client or View Client from the Clients Tab on the main screen

You can customise the fields which appear on this dialog, and the captions for each field. See the Columns Used for People tab within the Display Options dialog for further information. The following fields, and those shown in the screenshot above, are the fields which are available by default:

Client ID - is automatically generated when a new record is created, and cannot be changed
Barcode ID - defaults to the ID of the client, but can be changed to any value. This is the value encoded into the barcode on a client card.
First Name - enter the first name of the client.
Surname - enter the surname of the client.
Address - enter the address of the client (optional)
Phone Number - enter the phone number of the client (optional)
View History - this allows you to view the history for this client - i.e. when items were loaned out, returned, etc... See Client History for further information.
View Picture (not shown by default) - when the "picture" column is enabled in the Display Options dialog a button will be shown next to the View History button. Clicking on this button will bring up a new dialog. A JPEG image can be loaded from a file using this dialog and stored against the client. Storing of large size images against many client records may severely reduce performance in Baslogue. It is recommended that you make the image files as small as possible. Also, be aware that the Database Edition of Baslogue will handle a large number of images more efficiently than the Standalone Edition.