□ | The Loss Prevention application may not be used until certain Loss Prevention Maintenance Items are predefined by the End-User. |
• | The Alcohol/Tobacco Violations Form is used to define the types of Violations which will be tracked by the Loss Prevention application. |
• | Certain of these Violation Types are predefined and will be present when the Alcohol/Tobacco Violations Form is first accessed. |

Default Violations Form - Defaults
• | Additional Violation Types may be added as necessary. |
□ | Entering the Alcohol/Tobacco Loss Prevention Violations: |
• | From the Main Menu by Selecting Maintenance and Choosing Loss Prevention and Select the Alcohol/Tobacco Violations option. |

Violation Types Form - Enter new record
• | This Loss Prevention Violations Form may be Re-sized by Dragging the Top and/or Bottom up or down, and/or the Right side in or out. |
• | Navigation Menu - The Navigation Menu is located at the top of the Loss Prevention Violations Form. |

• | This Navigation Menu provides the normal Record Movement, New, Edit, Delete, Cancel, Save, and Refresh options; as well as a Search function. |
• | A tabular (spreadsheet style) Record Listing of the currently defined Loss Prevention Violations is displayed in the section immediately below the Loss Prevention Violations Form's Navigation Menu. |
• | There are two columns of data in this Loss Prevention Violations Record Listing: |
1) | ID - The record ID assigned by the system when the Loss Prevention Violation entry is originally saved. |
2) | Description - The actual explanation for the Loss Prevention Violation. |
• | Each column's Header Name describes the data contained in that column. |
▪ | Clicking on a Header Name will set the order in which the Loss Prevention Violations will be listed. |
▪ | Clicking on the same Header Name will set the order in the opposite direction (ascending vs. descending). |

▪ | The Header Name that is determining the Order of the list will have an Icon indicating the Order displayed next to that Header Name. |
• | To define the Alcohol/Tobacco related Loss Prevention Violations: |
• | Click the Icon to start the Attrition Type entry in the Record Editing section. |
• | ID - This is the system assigned record number which is inserted automatically when the record is initially saved. |
• | Description - Enter a brief description of the Violation. |
▪ | Up to 20 characters may be entered. |
▪ | Numbers, letters (upper and lower case), spaces and normal punctuation may be used. |
• | Click the Icon to record this entry. |
• | The system will assign an ID. |
• | Do not Delete the seven (7) default Violation Types. |
□ | Using the Search function on the Navigation Menu at the top of the Loss Prevention Violations Form: |
• | Search - Click the Search Icon to open the Search dialog. |

Search Violations dialog
• | See the "Using the Generic Search dialog" section in the Advanced Search Dialog chapter for more information about this Search dialog. |