Changing vehicle field labels

While it's not obvious, it is possible to change the labels for the vehicle fields on the dialogs and on the Ticket Form receipt, e.g. "Rig", "Car 1", "Model", "Color", etc. This can be useful if you're a marina instead of a campground, for instance.

Some of the field labels can be changed in Data Field Definitions, which you may have already tried. But because the dialogs and the Ticket Form receipt don't show the separate labels for each vehicle field, the rest require special handling. We have set it up so they can be changed through the Settings table.

Sort the "Section" column (click on the header) to make it easy to find the entries in the "Vehicles" section. (See note below if you can't find any "Vehicles" records.)

Locate the record with the setting you want to change, and edit the "Value" as needed. (Don't forget to check the "Allow editing of fields" box). The Key gives you some clue as to what each value is used for. The ones that start with "Ticket" are for the printed Ticket Form, and the ones that start with "Search" are for the Find Customer selection list. The "MoreButton" and "MoreTitle" entries are for the button in Customer Details and the title of the more-vehicles entry dialog.

Section	Key	Value
Vehicles	Data1	Model:
Vehicles	Data2	Color:
Vehicles	Data3	ST / License:
Vehicles	Prefix1	&Rig:
Vehicles	Prefix2	Car &1:
Vehicles	Prefix3	Car/Trlr &2:
Vehicles	Prefix4	Car/Trlr &3:
Vehicles	Prefix5	Car/Trlr &4:
Vehicles	MoreButton	More &Vehicles...
Vehicles	MoreTitle	Customer Vehicles
Vehicles	TicketData1	Model:
Vehicles	TicketData2	Color:
Vehicles	TicketData3	ST/Lic:
Vehicles	TicketPrefix1	Unit:
Vehicles	TicketPrefix2	Car:
Vehicles	TicketPrefix3	Other:
Vehicles	SearchData1	Vehicle Model
Vehicles	SearchData2	Vehicle Color
Vehicles	SearchData3	Vehicle License

Note that the ampersand (&) indicates the letter that will be underlined as a hot-key for jumping to that field (e.g. Alt-R to jump to "Rig"). It's not necessary, but if you change what letter is used for that entry then you need to make sure it's not already used by another field on the dialog.

Note: If you don't see any "Vehicle" records under Section, or don't see the one you want to change, then you're using a version that did not add them automatically. You will need to add the record(s) you want (check "Allow Editing of Fields", and click "New Record"), to manually enter the setting you want -- making sure to exactly match the "Vehicles" text and the Key name text as per the list above.