Author Topic: How to set different button heights for different terminals  (Read 5816 times)

Isaac

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As above.

As the screen on my TILL is quite big 21.5" I have set the button heights to fit the screen, however this causes scroll bars on the Tablet Terminal, which slows things down and makes taking orders on the tablet a lot slower.

I have cloned the Menu and set different button heights but how do you associate the menus with terminals without having to create new departments?

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Re: How to set different button heights for different terminals
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2013, 05:38:06 pm »
Are you talking about V2 or V3?

V2 - In the Department you can set the Menu for POS & Terminal (PC & Tablet)
V3 - This is set in the Ticket Type mappings
SambaPOS - POS'n the World, one Terminal at a time.

Isaac

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Re: How to set different button heights for different terminals
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2013, 07:07:02 am »
Hi John

Using V2.

In the department settings, is the terminal not for the terminal app?

My tablet is connected via RDP, pocketcloud so I thought it will look for the POS Menu?

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Re: How to set different button heights for different terminals
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2013, 07:35:28 am »
If your running SambaPOS (not the Terminal App) via RDP, then yes it will use the POS Menu.
The only way is to have a new Department.

You could try setting the Button Height to 0 (zero) to auto size the buttons, and then play with the Column Count on the Categories with lots of items.

Either way there is a trade off.
SambaPOS - POS'n the World, one Terminal at a time.

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Re: How to set different button heights for different terminals
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2013, 06:25:18 am »
Tried setting the button heights to 0 and they went massive. This may be because I have images on them  :o

Currently I have 2 Menus= one for the POS and one for the Tablet (Both with different button heights)

I then have four departments 2 Restaurant and 2 Takeaway

1 Restaurant and 1 Takeaway is set to the POS Menu and
1 Restaurant and 1 Takeaway is set to the Tablet Menu

Then in the user roles I have restricted the POS user to only view the POS Menu departments
and on the Tablet User Role I have allowed the Tablet departments.

Only downside of this procedure is when printing reports, you get quite a few departments showing up instead of the 2.