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

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About the screen GA100S23

This is a common screen, shared by a number of programs.
e.g. this screen is displayed when:

  • You click on the name of a plant in GA604S01 (Plants and Gardens program)
    You click on the Add a specimen line
  • You edit a plant in GA604S01 by clicking Edit (Plant Profile) in the Toolbar GA100S70
    get to screen GA100S36 (the plant profile screen)
    click the Specimens (Tab) button
    then click the Add (a specimen) button or double click to edit an existing specimen

This screen features a Page Frame with 7 pages:

  1. Plant Profile page
  2. Location page
  3. Supplier page
  4. Specimen Notes page
  5. Specimen Events page
  6. Pot History page (Bonsai Genie only)
  7. Batch page

In this screen:

  • Adding a specimen - Screenshot GA100S23-1
  • Adding and selecting a NEW Source (supplier) In screen GA100S23
    As shown in Screenshot GA100S23-2 click the Supplier button
    The Supplier page will appear
    As shown in Screenshot GA100S23-4 click the Suppliers button, then click the Add a Supplier button.
    Screen GA100S11 appears.
    As shown in Screenshot GA100S11-1 enter data then click the Add button
    Screen GA100S23 will reappear
    As shown in Screenshot GA100S23-3 click the Select button.
    The Specimen Profile page of GA100S23 will reappear and the new Supplier will be shown.
  • Selecting an existing Source In screen GA100S23
    Click the Supplier button.
    As shown in Screenshot GA100S23-3 click the Select button.
  • Shortcut method for Selecting an existing Source In screen GA100S23, using the Find Source feature
    Referring to Screenshot GA100S23-5 type a few characters of the name of an existing supplier.
    Ideas Genie presents a list of matching Suppliers using predictive text.
    Click in the list to select an existing Supplier for the Source field

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