This form is utilised to locate and select the appropriate vehicle variant for the purposes of displaying, editing or importing the corresponding maintenance value table values.
This form is split into five parts, which are as follows:
In addition to displaying the form name the Title Bar provides a number of useful buttons.
The contents of the Vehicle Selection menu bar is as follows:
Following selection, two alternative options are presented:
- Cancel
Exits the Vehicle Selection form and returns to the previous form.
- Exit
Exits the Vehicle Selection form and returns to the previous form.
Provides online access to a context sensitive Help form.
The contents of the full toolbar are as follows:
Exits the Vehicle Selection form and returns to the previous form.
Exits the Vehicle Selection form and returns to the previous form.
Provides online context sensitive help information to the user
This area of the form contains a number of selection criteria fields that can be manipulated in order to narrow or broaden a search for a particular vehicle or vehicles.
Any vehicles meeting the selected criteria are displayed within the vehicle Selection Display area.
Any field can be used in conjunction with either one or more of the other selection criteria fields and/or a vehicle selection within the vehicle Selection Display area.
Consists of two fields which provide a "To" and "From" facility, enabling a Basic Price "range" to be entered. The minimum basic price is entered in the first field and the maximum basic price in the second field. Any vehicles which have a basic price which is equal to or greater than the minimum price and equal to or less than the maximum price are displayed.
Consists of two fields which provide a "To" and "From" facility, enabling a P11D price "range" to be entered. The minimum P11D price is entered in the first field and the maximum P11D price in the second field. Any vehicles which have a P11D price which is equal to or greater than the minimum price and equal to or less than the maximum price are displayed.
Consists of two fields which provide a "To" and "From" facility, enabling a C.C. "range" to be entered. C.C. being the Cubic Capacity of the engine. The minimum engine size is entered in the first field and the maximum engine size in the second field. Any vehicles which have an engine size which is equal to or greater than the minimum engine size and equal to or less than the maximum engine size are displayed.
Consists of two fields which provide a "To" and "From" facility, enabling a door. "range" to be entered. The minimum number of doors is entered in the first field and the maximum number of doors in the second field. Any vehicles which have a number of doors equal to or greater than the minimum door number and equal to or less than the maximum door number are displayed.
On selection of the ellipsis (...) box directly to the right of this field a fuel type selection list is displayed. The list is presented in alphabetical order and the following selections are currently available:
Bi-Fuel
Diesel
LPG
Petrol
A single-click with the mouse highlights the required fuel type. A number of command buttons enable the following selections to be made:
OK Confirms the selection.
Cancel Cancels any selection and returns to the Vehicle Data Management form
None Enables a previous selection to be deselected and clears the field.
Selection of the ellipsis (...) box directly to the right of this field presents a vehicle class selection list. The list is presented in alphabetical order and the following selections are currently available:
Commercials
Heavy
Private Light Goods
A single-click with the mouse highlights the required vehicle class and selection of the OK command button confirms this choice. The Cancel command button cancels any selection and returns to the Vehicle Data Management form.
This facility allows entry of free-format text that assists with identification in a vehicle search. For example, entering the text string hatch auto ghia results in the display of all vehicles containing this text within the vehicle description. The contains field is not case sensitive.
Selection of the ellipsis button immediately to the right of this field displays the Model Analysis List Box from which the appropriate group may be selected. Current options available are as follows:
Car Private Light Goods
Comm Commercial Vehicle
This is a facility allowing the availability type to be defined for the vehicle selection within the quotation at variant level. The availability choices are quickly accessed via the drop-down list, which becomes available by selecting the down-arrow to the right of the Variant Availability field. The list is presented in alphabetical order and the following selections are currently available:
All
Current
Non-Current
A single-click of the mouse selects the required availability choice.
This is a facility allowing the availability type to be defined for the vehicle selection within the quotation at model level. The availability choices are quickly accessed via the drop-down list, which becomes available by selecting the down-arrow to the right of the Variant Availability field. The list is presented in alphabetical order and the following selections are currently available:
All
Current
Non-Current
A single-click of the mouse selects the required availability choice.
Selection of the ellipsis (...) box directly to the right of this field presents a body style selection list. The list is presented in alphabetical order and the following selections are currently available:
Coupe/Convertible
Estate
Hatchback
Pick-up
Roadster
Saloon
Station Wagon
Van
A single-click with the mouse highlights the required fuel type. A number of command buttons enable the following selections to be made:
OK Confirms the selection.
Cancel Cancels any selection and returns to the Vehicle Data Management form
None Enables a previous selection to be deselected and clears the field
The bottom area of the Selection Tab consists of three List Boxes- Franchise, Model & Variant - displayed side by side. If a List Box contains more options than the box can display, as with the Franchise box, the form presents a Scroll Bar which can be operated in a number of ways:
Within the first List Box, selection of the required franchise(s) can be carried out in a number of ways using standard windows functionality.
Single-left-click on the first required franchise and, whilst holding down the mouse button, stripe-down to the last required franchise;
Single-left-click on the first required franchise, hold down the Shift Key, and single-click on the last required franchise in the list.
Single-click on the first required franchise, hold down the Ctrl Key, then click on the next required franchise (repeat this process until all the required franchises are selected).
Following successful completion of one of the above steps, the required franchises are highlighted and the appropriate models are automatically displayed in the second List Box.
Selection at model level is performed in the same way as franchise selection.
Selection of the required model(s) automatically displays all variants included within this model range. Individual variants may be selected if required.
Following selection of the appropriate vehicle(s) and entry of any required advanced selection criteria, the Edit Tab is used to view those vehicles meeting the input criteria and to edit the specific vehicle attributes.