Unit 4

Activity 20

‘Get Our Beaches Clean’ has partially developed a database. The organisation
relies on donations from the general public to publicise beach cleaning
campaigns and to provide transport and cleaning materials.

When recording the details about new campaigns the user must be able to:

 set the target amount of funds the campaign should achieve. This is never
below £100.00
 set the campaign date
 set the campaign a name
 assign a manager to the campaign
 set the number of days the campaign will run. This is always between 1
and 5 days.

(a) A data entry form should include user interface components that support
users.

Assess the extent to which the data entry form named frmCampaign
would support a user in recording the details about a new campaign.

Factors you are going to consider

Add the factors that you think are important.
One has been added for you
 Appropriate help text
 The layout must be in a user friendly manner.
 Code command buttons to double check.
 Date formats should be given to make it more understandable.
 Asterisk marks could be given for the mandatory information while the
other could be mentioned as ( Optional )
 Drop down lists could make the form more user friendly and prevent errors.
Consideration and significance
Add your assessment of how well the data input form addresses the factors above
and judgements about their significance/importance.
One has been added for you
 The form has no help at all. This is very significant as there is no way for
the user to know how to use the form or what to do if something goes
wrong.
 The layout of the form is unorganized which could lead the user to have a
misunderstanding on how to properly use the form. For example, the save
button which is supposed to come at the end of the form is placed in the
middle of the form. At such instance , the user might think that the form
should be saved in the middle which could lead to errors and loss of
customer information.
 Commands could be coded into the buttons which could be a convinients
and secure method to re-check the input information. For example, the save
button could be coded to double-check if the user has input all the
informaiton accordingly.
 Furthurmore, date formats could be given when inputting the “Campaign
date” for example so it would make the form more user friendly and
convinients. For example, date formats such as <<dd-mm-yyyy>> or
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<<mm-dd-yyyy>> could be given.

 To display compulsory ot mandatory information such as the “Campaign
manager” and the “campaign name” could be shown with an asterisk mark
to shoe the user that it is needed at all costs.
 Drop doen lists could be used to display the number of days for example as
the number of days are only limited between 1 and 5 days. Through this,
the customer would not get frustrated and will know what to do.