Ideas Genie
Software for Plants and Gardens

by Ideas for Gardens.com
User Guide - Applies to Ideas Genie Pro 6 and Bonsai Genie 6
Last updated: 8th April 2024

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Index

About screenshots

Introduction

Getting Started

Setting Up

Preferences

Database preferences

 

Plant Culture/Property
 classifications- GA603

Plants and Gardens-GA604

Garden Photos - GA605

 

Articles - GA607

Plant Care
Classifications GA611

My Garden - GA616

Specimens - GA629

Link Photos - GA630

Reviews - GA632

 

 

Web Projects - GA642

Tasks - GA647

GA100 screens

Backups

 

Create a New Database

Open another database

Restore

Pack files

Reindex Files

Change Code Page

Special - GA912

Where is everything?

FAQ

Glossary

Common Controls

Index by Program Name

Acknowledgements

About us

Product support

Sponsored Links

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User Guide
Reviews - Program GA632
 

Starting the program
On the Main Menu, click the Programs tab then click:
Reviews - GA632
The initial screen GA632S01 looks like this:-
Screenshot

In this section

About the program
This program allows you to compose reviews of plants.
It is also used for creating web sites using the Web Page Generator.
The Web Projects program GA642 is the more recent method of generating websites.
 

Click the "Gardeners" check box to select a list of  gardeners in your database,

Click on the ww button to the right side of the Gardeners check box

3
Select a Gardener from the "Gardeners" pop-up.
then
Click on the "Add New Review" button

4
Add a title for the review in the field provided.
You may also add notes about the review in the Notes field.
Click "Add Review" button to save changes.

5
The review you added appears in the "Review Descriptions" list.
Click the "Done" button

6
You are now back to the initial screen.
If necessary, select the correct Gardener from the pop-up. Select your new review in the "Review Name" pop-up.
Click the "Plants" button (upper left)

7
Select and click once on a plant to be added to the review. Then click on the "Add to review" button on the right. This adds the plant to the CURRENTLY SELECTED review.

8
Add more plants to the review if you wish, then click the "Reviews" button (upper right)

9
The plant(s) you added now appear in the "List of plants features in this review" list.

10
Now to add review notes.
Click once on a plant. Type (or copy and paste) your review notes for the selected plant into the text area on the right.

11
There are 2 fields for web addresses.
If you wish, you can use the URL  field to store a web address for your favourite web page for the selected plant, and use the PicURL field for a deep link to the URL of a photo on the internet.
Click Ive done this

12
The URL and PicURL dont have to be from the same web site. Its optional.
Did you notice how the "Change" button appeared?
Click "Ive done this"

13
The "Change" button appears when you enter text in any of the edit fields.
Be sure to click "Change" to save your work for each plant .

Tutorial ended. Click Quit

Other screens in this program

  • GA632S02
     

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