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This is a general help for accessing information for the Musical Methods store.

Musical Methods sells a variety of musical items -- CDs, Records, etc.  It also has a

selection of video tapes, and various accessories.  This application lets you browse

through the available items to find out various information about them.

Categories

Media Types

Sales Rankings


Categories

A category is the general theme category of an item.  For example,

Rock is a category for a musical item, like a CD


Sales Rankings

A Sales Ranking is the sales grouping the current item falls in, for

example -- top 50 best sellers.


Media Types

A Media Type is the media on which the current item is recorded.

For example, Compact Disc can be a media type for a piece of

music


Search Field

Select a field you would like to search on from the available list.

This field is defined in the Search form


Search Value

Enter a value for the field you are searching on.

This action is taken in the search form .


More

This pushbutton is available on the main music view form.  It will expand

the current form to show some more information about the current item.

When it is selected, its text changes to "Less", so you can select to only see

the default information.


Less

This button is available on the main music form.  It will shrink the form,

 so the expanded information brought up with the "More" button is not seen.

The text of the button will change to "More..." so you can expand the form again,

if you like.


Items

This button is available in the Categories, Sales Rankings, and Media Configurations views.

It will expand the current form to show all the available items that apply to the currently

highlighted category/sales ranking/media type.

When the view is expanded, the Items button changes text to "No Items". You can

select it for seeing a compact view.


No Items

This button is available on the Categories, Sales Rankings, Media Configurations

view forms.  It will shrink the current form to only show a listing of

categories/sales rankings/media types.  Its text will change to "Items..."

so that you can expand the form when you like.