Changing Windows Explorer behaviour.

Win7 SP1 Access10 Outlook10

I send out invoices by email using Outlook10.

These are the steps:

1/ Raise the Invoice with Access10.
2/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
3/ Save this in an WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for the "First" Customer.


4/ Raise a next invoice for the "Second"
customer in Access10.
5/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
6/ Save this in a WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for "Second" Customer.

Unfortunately when WinExplorer opens in Step 6 it
presents the "First" Customer folder and it is too
easy to dump "Second" customer into the "First"
customer folder.

Alas, the First customer transactions are
sometimes sent to Second customer!

How can I make Explorer not automatically open
"First" customer but instead just present the
Explorer root (or some higher) folder?

Peter

On 2/3/2014 10:44 AM, Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 SP1 Access10 Outlook10

I send out invoices by email using Outlook10.

These are the steps:

1/ Raise the Invoice with Access10.
2/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
3/ Save this in an WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for the "First" Customer.


4/ Raise a next invoice for the "Second"
customer in Access10.
5/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
6/ Save this in a WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for "Second" Customer.

Unfortunately when WinExplorer opens in Step 6 it
presents the "First" Customer folder and it is too
easy to dump "Second" customer into the "First"
customer folder.

Alas, the First customer transactions are
sometimes sent to Second customer!

How can I make Explorer not automatically open
"First" customer but instead just present the
Explorer root (or some higher) folder?

I think that's a function of Acrobat, not explorer, & I haven't been
able to find any settings in Acrobat to prevent that behavior. Acrobat
tends to always want to save in the last folder that was saved to.

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:10:07 +0900, BobbyM
wrote:

On 2/3/2014 10:44 AM, Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 SP1 Access10 Outlook10

I send out invoices by email using Outlook10.

These are the steps:

1/ Raise the Invoice with Access10.
2/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
3/ Save this in an WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for the "First" Customer.


4/ Raise a next invoice for the "Second"
customer in Access10.
5/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
6/ Save this in a WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for "Second" Customer.

Unfortunately when WinExplorer opens in Step 6 it
presents the "First" Customer folder and it is too
easy to dump "Second" customer into the "First"
customer folder.

Alas, the First customer transactions are
sometimes sent to Second customer!

How can I make Explorer not automatically open
"First" customer but instead just present the
Explorer root (or some higher) folder?

I think that's a function of Acrobat, not explorer, & I haven't been
able to find any settings in Acrobat to prevent that behavior. Acrobat
tends to always want to save in the last folder that was saved to.

I have Acrobat10 and I checked it again, but there
seems no way to change this.

Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 SP1 Access10 Outlook10

I send out invoices by email using Outlook10.

These are the steps:

1/ Raise the Invoice with Access10.
2/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
3/ Save this in an WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for the "First" Customer.


4/ Raise a next invoice for the "Second"
customer in Access10.
5/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
6/ Save this in a WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for "Second" Customer.

Unfortunately when WinExplorer opens in Step 6 it
presents the "First" Customer folder and it is too
easy to dump "Second" customer into the "First"
customer folder.

Alas, the First customer transactions are
sometimes sent to Second customer!

How can I make Explorer not automatically open
"First" customer but instead just present the
Explorer root (or some higher) folder?

Peter

Do you know if any of your tool flow supports scripting ?
In other words, something like

access10 -database xyz -record 23 -output C:\customer_jane_doe\Jan2014.pdf
access10 -database xyz -record 76 -output C:\customer_jim_day\Jan2014.pdf

If you could explicitly state the folder, maybe things would work better.

Paul

Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 SP1 Access10 Outlook10

I send out invoices by email using Outlook10.

These are the steps:

1/ Raise the Invoice with Access10.
2/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
3/ Save this in an WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for the "First" Customer.


4/ Raise a next invoice for the "Second"
customer in Access10.
5/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
6/ Save this in a WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for "Second" Customer.

Unfortunately when WinExplorer opens in Step 6 it
presents the "First" Customer folder and it is too
easy to dump "Second" customer into the "First"
customer folder.

Alas, the First customer transactions are
sometimes sent to Second customer!

How can I make Explorer not automatically open
"First" customer but instead just present the
Explorer root (or some higher) folder?

I suspect you can't do that.

What you *could* do is to always save the document in the higher folder,
then move it later. One way to move it before you forget would be to
immediately call up the "Save As" dialog, drag the file to the desired
customer folder, then exit the dialog without saving. However if the app
keeps the file locked after saving that probably won't work, in which
case you'd need to close the document first.

--
Mike Barnes

On 03/02/2014 01:44:39, Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 SP1 Access10 Outlook10

I send out invoices by email using Outlook10.

These are the steps:

1/ Raise the Invoice with Access10.
2/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
3/ Save this in an WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for the "First" Customer.

4/ Raise a next invoice for the "Second"
customer in Access10.
5/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
6/ Save this in a WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for "Second" Customer.

Unfortunately when WinExplorer opens in Step 6 it
presents the "First" Customer folder and it is too
easy to dump "Second" customer into the "First"
customer folder.

Alas, the First customer transactions are
sometimes sent to Second customer!

How can I make Explorer not automatically open
"First" customer

You cannot change explorer.

but instead just present the
Explorer root (or some higher) folder?

Click on the 'up one level' icon in the explorer pop up window.

--
mick

On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:56:02 GMT, mick
wrote:

On 03/02/2014 01:44:39, Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 SP1 Access10 Outlook10

I send out invoices by email using Outlook10.

These are the steps:

1/ Raise the Invoice with Access10.
2/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
3/ Save this in an WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for the "First" Customer.

4/ Raise a next invoice for the "Second"
customer in Access10.
5/ Convert this to PDF via Access10 Acrobat.
6/ Save this in a WinExplorer My Documents
folder named for "Second" Customer.

Unfortunately when WinExplorer opens in Step 6 it
presents the "First" Customer folder and it is too
easy to dump "Second" customer into the "First"
customer folder.

Alas, the First customer transactions are
sometimes sent to Second customer!

How can I make Explorer not automatically open
"First" customer

You cannot change explorer.

but instead just present the
Explorer root (or some higher) folder?

Click on the 'up one level' icon in the explorer pop up window.

Mine doesn't have this, but I can just click on a
root folder; if I remember to.