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Ideas Genie – More Tutorials (2) Issue date 19th Sept 2002
Now we are ready to add plants to our
database, identify our beloved garden areas and link photos to garden areas.
Do
the following tutorials. Run the option Help
> Tutorials from the Ideas Genie menu.
Note that you can actually add gardeners, garden
areas and plants in programs GA004, GA005 and GA022. Common screens are used.
To get you used to the system we have spread the tasks so you get an
introduction to each of these three data input programs.
Step
1 Selection Step
2 – Tutorial to select
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Program
GA004 (1) Add
a new plant (Genus does not exist)
Now you need somewhere to “Plant” your new plant.
Rmember,
you can ALSO do the following three steps in GA004. Common screens are used.
Step
1 Selection Step
2 – Tutorial to select
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Program
GA005 (8) Adding
a new Gardener profile
Program
GA005 (11) Adding
a Garden Division.
Program
GA005 (6) Creating
a Garden Area.
Program
GA004 (3) Linking
a plant to a Garden Area.
Now you are ready for photos.
Do
the next tutorial (GA196 (26) ) if you already have a directory of photographs
of your garden.
During
the tutorial, drag the Help Icon around the screen and read the items.
Do not delete the paths which are already there.
They are needed for our tutorials and point to our sample photo(s) We recommend
that you do NOT use these paths for your own photos and documents as any
subsequent Ideas Genie Uninstall procedure will delete these directories and
their contents
You
may create one or many paths to your photos and documents. You may nominate one
path to photos as the Main Photo path and one Path to Documents as your Main
Document Path. When you run programs where these paths appear in pop-ups, the
Main Path will be the default, making photograph and document access quicker.
You may of course change the Main settings at any time.
Step
1 Selection Step
2 – Tutorial to select
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Program
GA196 (26) Define
a Path to Photos (Using Folder Finder)
Program
GA005 (7) Linking
a Photo to a Garden Area
Program
GA005 (25) Linking
an EXISTING Garden Area plant to a photo.
Program
GA005 (16) Linking
an EXISTING plant to a Garden Area and a photo
Program
GA005 (15) Linking
a NEW plant to a Garden Area Photo
Program
GA005 (49) Defining
co-ordinates for plants in a (Garden Area) Photo.
Program
GA201 (14) Backing up your database
files. (Don’t do this if you are evaluating the system. You may wish to Restore
the skeleton database again from the backup directory to repeat the second set
of tutorials.)
Developer
Notes
I
prefer to add plants, create Gardeners and Garden Areas and link plants in one
program GA004. I think of GA004 as the “Garden Builder”. The process is
identical in GA005 and indeed GA015 as the screens are common. GA004 was the
very first module. I used this as a standalone Garden Documentation program
before Ideas Genie was “conceived”.
With
the latest features, you have a number of interface options to allow you to
easily find a complete Genus of plants, order the selected Genus by either
cultivar name or plant name in addition to the standard “Plants by Garden
area” listings dating back to Version 1
and beyond.
Program
GA022 was introduced in Version 2 as a manager for the Plant Data. Identical
“Genus find” options to GA004, but no Garden Area listings. The “data platform”
screen (GA022S02) is a double click away from the first screen and allows
incredibly easy access to the display of all the “data blobs” relevant to the
plant e.g. Genus data, Species Data, Plant data, Cultivations notes,
Propagation Notes and much more!
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