The selection list of a combo box is often cluttered with unnecessary data not needed for the current context. To solve this issue Skylog provides an option to limit the selection lists such that data is not displayed, which is not longer needed or currently not needed. This functionality is provided for aircraft and persons.
The option in the preference section “limit selection” activates the functionality to exclude certain data from selections.
You
can choose the aircraft resp. persons not to show in selection lists
of combo boxes in the preference subsections “Limit selection of
aircraft” resp. “Limit selection of persons”. Selected aircraft
resp. persons are not shown in selection lists in combo boxes. Skylog
remembers the selected items if the option to limit selections is
disabled in the section “Limit selection”.
If the selections is limited and an item is configured not to be displayed in the selection list and you opened an editor which needs to display this item the combo box will remain empty. The Wizard will report an error and you cannot proceed editing (e.g. on the next wizard page) until the supposedly missing data is entered. E.g. the a/c “D-ESKY” is configured not to be displayed in selection lists and you want to edit a flight using this a/c. Albeit the a/c has been entered and the data is still present the combo box showing the a/c in the edit flight wizard will be empty and the wizard reports an error, because the a/c for the flight is missing. The second page of the wizard is not reachable until an a/c has been entered. If you want to edit an attendand you have to disable the option to limit selections before. The same is analogously true for persons.
Either the configuration to exclude the item – D-ESKY in the example – is changed or the option is disabled completely for the duration of the modification. The configuration of items to exclude is remembered in this case.