Programming User Buttons

This page relates to the following products/programs: PosGreen, RetailMaxWin, Fpos

Example User Programming Button

This screen allows authorised staff at each Point of Sale lane to program specifically enabled buttons to perform functions. Often this is used to allow the adding of one touch "quick sell" buttons for short term use.

English Label

Sets the text to appear on the button. New lines can be forced by typing \n into the text.

Common Label

A shortcut method to quickly select common strings

Radius

Allows the button to be styled with rounded corners, if possible. The larger the number the more rounding of corners that occurs.

Text Colour

Background Colour

Selects from common colours for both background and text.

When selecting colours to use, keep in mind that around 8% of males and 0.5% of females suffer from colour blindness and may not be able to quickly read all combinations. Colours can also change slightly depending on the exact screen used to display them

Functions Performed

This section controls what the button actually does when pressed. The quickest way to program a button is to press the "insert" button and use the wizard that displays a range of common options

Example of large number of programmable buttons waiting to be programmed

Additional Notes

Programmble buttons are required to be placed in the UI before users can program them. The UI designer must specify where and how many programmable buttons are available. Often, a screen full of programmable buttons will be deployed to counters in order to allow front counter staff a large degree of freedom.
Programming buttons by this technique is not as powerful and UI design itself. Only a subset of commands and options is shown in order to keep complexity down.

Programming and Setup

This screen is invoked by holding the Ctrl key while clicking on a button. The active user needs security rights to program buttons and the system must be in "programming mode" for this to work.