Why oh why, in this great age of modern technology, do some ms programs not allow you to save your report in the middle of it? I'm specifically referring to Corporate Research. I have a lengthy gas station shop I'm trying to input. I took a lot of photos, probably at least 10. I did the entire report, hit "submit" at the bottom, and now the program appears to be stuck. If I have to re-enter all this info and upload all the photos, I am going to be very ticked off.

Seriously, CORI and all you other msc that don't have a save feature, get with the program!!!

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/15/2011 12:09AM by Phoebe70.

Haven't done CRI yet because of the funny(low) commissions. I even seen bonuses of .30 (thirty cents). I was about to call my IT friend and ask him to fix my HTML on my email account.

CRI to put some of their profits into "commissions" and their website.

I am stuck trying to submit a CRI report right now. This is also one that has pics. I lost it once already and had to do it all over again. Now it is stuck again and just sits there. I have four more shops to submit tonight. I wish I would of saved this for last because no other report window will open with it trying to submit. I'm surprised this window even opened.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2011 02:12AM by vbree2000.

When I'm dealing with a very slow to load, upload or submit shop and have other shops to perform, I generally open another window where I can be working on another report rather than sitting there watching a slow submission. Usually I do it as a tab on the same window that is open for the slow report. I am assuming, of course, that you are working with a reasonably quick internet connection.

I don't remember with CRI, but with some of the shops that appear to be 'hung', hitting the X in the URL to stop and then the submit to try again may help. And sometimes when I seem to have really hung, opening the company up in another window may knock it loose so your report is going to a fresh connection to the company even though it is in a different window.

CAUTION. With some companies (Service Intelligence comes immediately to mind), if you use the X routine you lose the report and the back button will not retrieve it.

Thank you Flash! I opened up CRI in a different window and logged back in and it showed that the shop was submitted!!! I am so happy that I don't have to fill that thing out again!!!

Glad it went through!

Hey techsavvy
I am working in the great state of Oh also. Perhaps we could exchange ideas.

I save many reports to Roboform as I am writing them. It doesn't help as far as saving photo uploads, but it saves all the text.

If I want or need to close the page and come back, all the text fields are repopulated with what I previously saved at the click of a button.

Another trick I use when dealing with forms that are multiple pages, or have large text requirements, is to copy the text before hitting 'next' or 'save'. That way, if the form times out or there's an internet glitch, I can just reload the page and paste the text back in.

Rainey
I have Roboform Pro. How do you save your text to it.

Update CRI is now Stericycle, anybody know any info about this company??

Pobo35 Wrote:
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> Rainey
> I have Roboform Pro. How do you save your text to
> it.


When you are on the page you want to save,just click "save". Then a box comes up and asks if you want to save a new passcard, and click save again. I use the Roboform Toolbar and the save button is on that.

Nice to see another Ohioan.

cynb Wrote:
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> Hey techsavvy
> I am working in the great state of Oh also.
> Perhaps we could exchange ideas.

cyn615 Wrote:
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> Update CRI is now Stericycle, anybody know any
> info about this company??


Yeah hi cyn it's cyn
Just go to the usual website and agree to their blah blah. It is exactly the same strange deal.

Has anybody actually done any jobs for the new Stericycle? I have not seen any posted in my area yet...

I have done several shops since I got their email. The site still comes up as CRI. So not sure if it is staying that way or it has not changed as of yet.

Phoebe70 Wrote:
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> Why oh why, in this great age of modern
> technology, do some ms programs not allow you to
> save your report in the middle of it? I'm
> specifically referring to Corporate Research. I
> have a lengthy gas station shop I'm trying to
> input. I took a lot of photos, probably at least
> 10. I did the entire report, hit "submit" at the
> bottom, and now the program appears to be stuck.
> If I have to re-enter all this info and upload all
> the photos, I am going to be very ticked off.
>
> Seriously, CORI and all you other msc that don't
> have a save feature, get with the program!!!

i have a program called 'microsoft office onenote 2007'. i just click the button before i submit the report, and it copies the entire webpage into it's own new document on my computer.

I use Evernote and never thought of using it for that purpose. I'll have to see if it works. Does OneNote maintain choices you've clicked on radio buttons? I have that, too, but haven't used it since the company I used it with has moved on to other methods.

vince Wrote:
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> Phoebe70 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Why oh why, in this great age of modern
> > technology, do some ms programs not allow you
> to
> > save your report in the middle of it? I'm
> > specifically referring to Corporate Research.
> I
> > have a lengthy gas station shop I'm trying to
> > input. I took a lot of photos, probably at
> least
> > 10. I did the entire report, hit "submit" at
> the
> > bottom, and now the program appears to be stuck.
>
> > If I have to re-enter all this info and upload
> all
> > the photos, I am going to be very ticked off.
> >
> > Seriously, CORI and all you other msc that
> don't
> > have a save feature, get with the program!!!
>
> i have a program called 'microsoft office onenote
> 2007'. i just click the button before i submit
> the report, and it copies the entire webpage into
> it's own new document on my computer.

TechSavvy Wrote:
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> I use Evernote and never thought of using it for
> that purpose. I'll have to see if it works. Does
> OneNote maintain choices you've clicked on radio
> buttons? I have that, too, but haven't used it
> since the company I used it with has moved on to
> other methods.
>

microsoft office onenote 2007 will only copy the full text for a webpage at the click of a button. hence, if you clicked the button for 100 different webpages, they would be instantly copied into editable text. but it won't copy choices for radio buttons.

technically, one could copy each thread page for an internet forum with onenote, clicking the copy button once for each thread page. an entire thread could be copied in seconds. or even an entire website could be copied into editable text in minutes, depending on it's size.

Thanks for the reply.

Printing a shop form out of Chrome, even printing to PDF, results in the radio choices blanked out. For pages where I need to record radio button choices, I use an extension for Chrome which lets me save a screenshot of the entire webpage, including the non-visible portion: Awesome Screenshot.

In a pinch, there are web-based services which will perform OCR on an image file and extract the text for you. That's handy if, for whatever reason, you only had a screenshot rather than HTML.


I wish all companies offered the ability to save the report as PDF. Many Sassie companies allow this and I appreciate it!

vince Wrote:
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> TechSavvy Wrote:
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> -----
> > I use Evernote and never thought of using it
> for
> > that purpose. I'll have to see if it works.
> Does
> > OneNote maintain choices you've clicked on
> radio
> > buttons? I have that, too, but haven't used it
> > since the company I used it with has moved on
> to
> > other methods.
> >
>
> microsoft office onenote 2007 will only copy the
> full text for a webpage at the click of a button.
> hence, if you clicked the button for 100 different
> webpages, they would be instantly copied into
> editable text. but it won't copy choices for
> radio buttons.
>
> technically, one could copy each thread page for
> an internet forum with onenote, clicking the copy
> button once for each thread page. an entire
> thread could be copied in seconds. or even an
> entire website could be copied into editable text
> in minutes, depending on it's size.

Same thing happened to me. I had to resubmit everything three times before it worked. I had to send my receipt's in email. I hope they accept them. I little save button would be great!

vbree2000 Wrote:
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> Thank you Flash! I opened up CRI in a different
> window and logged back in and it showed that the
> shop was submitted!!! I am so happy that I don't
> have to fill that thing out again!!!


It might go through but with the typos and other errors you eliminated along the way. It does not save your corrections for some reason. CRI and a few other MSP's like ICCDS will take your report before you are done and it would not be the finished polished version.

Radio choices? Working with Roboform (which I've heard of)? I think I need to do some research--when I have time. Like I'll ever have free time. It seems all I do is work.

My main problem right now is this laptop. I've never had one before. It tries to read my mind and tells me what I really wanted. Except that all I wanted was to type a capital P at the beginning of a sentence. It goes to Private Browsing all the time. It tells me I really wanted italics in an email. It loses what was on the screen. I'm just typing along and all of a sudden the whole section of text is gone. Last night, I had to reenter text on a shop at least five times. The whole screen will disappear. I know where to look for it, but it hides and sometimes pops up again at odd moments three days later. Right now, I have red paragraphs in a file I keep on video assignments. I have never used colored type ever. Just now, it threw up a favorites bar. You'd be surprised how many favorites I have and I have never, ever put anything in favorites on this computer. The ones I had on the desktop are long gone because my company preferences change. It absolutely hates to type dashes. Just now it didn't like the d in "dashes" and put up some kind of search screen.

I am a touch typist. I rarely make mistakes. My mind works. Why is my mind telling this computer to do this?

I know this is off topic but I am quietly, calmy ranting.

Sandra, my guess is you sometimes might be hitting the CTRL key or function key while typing instead of the shift key. In some combinations, that can do some of the things you mention. A different keyboard can make it easy to hit a different key than you intend. What browser are you using?

Internet Explorer, mostly. The control key is rather far from my little finger. I think it is something I am doing with my right hand. I have also noticed that this keyboard seems to need my fingers to be perpendicular to the keyboard at times. My hands are not big and its uncomfortable for me to always hold up my hands the way I imagine piano players do.

Hey SS
Here is my totally non-tech theory. I have had the exact problems in the past when switching to another keyboard. Some times older desktops have keys that are more raised. I really think that is an issue of getting used to a new keyboard and TS is probably right you are hitting CNTRL or something instead of the intended key. I really think with time this will resolve itself.

If I don't get in the habit of hitting the wrong keys. . . lol.

Sandra Sue Wrote:
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> Internet Explorer, mostly. The control key is
> rather far from my little finger. I think it is
> something I am doing with my right hand. I have
> also noticed that this keyboard seems to need my
> fingers to be perpendicular to the keyboard at
> times. My hands are not big and its uncomfortable
> for me to always hold up my hands the way I
> imagine piano players do.

When I was using a laptop, I got a 2nd keyboard & mouse, and used that instead of the laptop keyboard - it saved my wrists and sanity! A bit more to carry, but worth it.