I don't know about administative systems, but the problem looks simular to what I have, a drawing program with a multitude of inputtable object, I have put those in esentiallly a modeless dialog showing a TabControl with various TabPages located in a smal band underneath the thestandard windows Toolbar, the rest of the page then is my drawing arrea. Ican imagine a simular setup would work in your case. Group your options together according to functionality (or whaterver) onto a tabpage with a functional name. options might be adjusted to the various tabpages and processed all at once or per seperate tab page, just according to needs / wants. This approach makes a much user-friendlier screen then having all lkinds of modal dialogs popup for each several option,. modal dialogs I use for global setting which needs only be change occasionally. But in case your options are frequent inputs I suggest my modeless tabcontrol aproach,leaving a display arrea for whtever is conveniently to show there.
Hope this sugestion helps |