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Can I add a Person from the Lookup program?
When building families after the head of household is in the system
we did this in the following manner: From the Person screen of head of
household we selected F18 family the family members were listed. To add an additional family
member we chose F6 Add member. A screen came up to put in person number of look up. When
look up is done if the person is not in the system there is not an option to Add a person as there is
at other Person look up screens. The screen I am referring to is CS4000-1.
Shouldn't there be an Add a person option from this screen? Without this, you have to exit or open
another session and go to work with data about persons in order to add this person. This seems to
be a round about way of doing this when other Person look up screens have the option of adding a
person when the person is not found.
RESPONSE
After reviewing your request to be able to add a Person from the Lookup Person Number screen, I
need to revise my reply.
Of course you are correct. The program should let you add the Person from that screen if the
Person is not in the database. You have asked us to change the Lookup program to do that -- and
we have already made the change. Except when the Person program must be called from the
Lookup program which was called from the Person program! In other words, the operating system
does not let a program call itself.
To get around the problem, we train "homebuilders" to add all the family members before they build
the family. Or, to use option 12 on menu 21 to build families. Reception area workers can get to
menu 21 easily from menu 31. But to emphasize the point, I think we will add the Maintain Family
program to menu 31.
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