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Each program form on the CE has a consistent set of drop down menus. These menus can be used to additionally view the data in table form, delete individual records and sort the table. The menus can provide convenience is some situations for data record access or examination the form options may not provide. Each form has been designed to provide essential operation and data query without accessing these additional drop down menus. In certain cases accessing these additional functions could provide odd or unpredictable results when viewing back into the data form.
Two of the most frequently accessed choices are under the "Options" menu. They are "List" and "Filter". The "List" option provides a convenient way to show all of the current records in the file, or those that are part of the current "Filter". The "Filter" is a toggle option and can be selected and de-selected. If the Filter is selected, the List only shows records pertaining to the current filter group. This typically is the current group of details for an order, or the current customer etc. In each table there are several fields that have indexes. These are indicated by the carrot ‘^’ character in the column title. By clicking on the column title the list will be re-sorted into that sequence.
By clicking on Options/List and de-selecting it, the single record form returns for data entry.
The one other frequently useful drop-down menu "Record" has the function "Close" that is used to exit the RemoteCE application.
The RemoteCE application has two main systems that constitute the complete application. There is a portion that runs on the desktop PC and a series of programs that run on the Windows CE device. Each of these is installed separately. The two sub-systems are discussed in the next section.