A more informative and functional Slips tab

[cengizu]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When clicking on the Slips tab, if the S-89 form is not already installed, it gives a warning in the form of: "Please send an email or contact us to upload the S-89 form". When this message window is ignored or OK button is clicked, the program switches to a different tab other than the Slips tab. A more elegant solution should be placed here to avoid giving the impression that there is a bug in the program.

Describe the solution you'd like
Instead of Slips tab displaying an alert/warning message, let the application inform user gently what to do within this tab, displaying the message inside. This lets Slip tab remain functional (as it should) regardless of S-89 slips are installed or not. Since HTML is available in this tab, it may be possible to provide information with a simple html page.

Here is a concept design, but should be improved and simplified:

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu

I agree that this is a good idea 💡 and should be implemented. It will be much better than the way I am doing it at the moment.

Displaying a custom page will be easy enough to do. I needed to do some research about the following:

• How to use JavaScript code to change the text displayed on the page to match the user interface.
• How to get the WebView2 browser control to display the Contact Form with the computers default browser.

This feature has now been implemented (translations withstanding) and I have sent a beta to you for testing.

[ajtruckle]

@cengizu

I have done a quick review of the help documentation and I don't think we specifically say anything about what happens when you click the Slips preview tab when no templates are installed. So I assume no changes are needed for the help. 😊

And I'll use the wording of this ticket for the Revision History:

A more informative and functional Slips tab

I know that I did a video tutorial (Using S-89 Assignment Slips) back in 2017 but I don't think that needs to be changed either.

[cengizu]

@ajtruckle Yes, the help documentation can remain untouched and the Video tutorial is also still valid. With this update, only the way of informing the user has changed: A message embedded in the tab instead of a distracting pop up message.