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Object documentationChoices

 

These options allow you to assign choices to functions that provide cashiers with a list of options at the POS reducing the need to manually input data for transactions involving discounts, price overrides, or returns.

Structure

Choice Options

Screen Element

Description

Partial Flag

Allows you to enable the cashier to select multiple choices for a profile prompt.

  • When you select the checkbox, the choice you selected for the response to the profile prompt is only partially complete. Therefore, once the cashier makes a choice, they can continue to make other choices or append the one they made.

  • When you deselect the checkbox, the response for the profile prompt is complete once the cashier makes a choice.

Choice No

Identifies the choice option

Description

Describes the choice option, for example Wrong Size. The description can be up to 20 characters long.

Link ID

Allows you either to link multiple choice lists together or to link choice lists to profile prompts. Enter the ID for the choice list or profile prompt. The ID reference must be for a choice list or profile prompt that you have already defined within the system. This field works with the Link Type, if you enter a profile prompt identification in the Link ID field, then you must choose profile prompt from the Link Type dropdown list.

Link Type

Allows you to link the choice list that you are currently defining either to another choice list or to a profile prompt. You set the link type by selecting one of the following options:

  • 01 — Choice List

  • 02 — Profile Prompt

Exit At Entry

Allows you to enforce that the cashier to return to the previous menu once they have selected a choice

Data

Allows you to define the text to appear as the choice for the response to the profile prompt. If blank, the value entered in the choice Description appears as the choice for the response to the profile prompt. For example, if you want state abbreviations to appear as the choices, you would enter NY in the Data field and New York in the Description field.