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Working with a New Specimen in IG Pro 5
« on: November 04, 2011, 05:08:47 PM »
George:

I am working in IG Pro 5.
I’ve added a new specimen of a plant in GA100S23 ADDING SPECIMEN.
including the data for ‘Source’.
This specimen is listed in GA100S36 WORK WITH PLANT PROFILE  for this plant
under the SPECIMEN TAB.
Just to the left of the Specimen tab is a SOURCE tab.
When the Source tab is clicked on, should it not show the Source as I had previously entered
it in the Adding Specimen Screen?
The Source tab displays the message ‘Not found in any catalog”.

The source in this case is Ed Hume Seeds.
Should not the name ‘Ed Hume Seeds’ have appeared under the Source Tab?

-Toby

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Re: Working with a New Specimen in IG Pro 5
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2011, 10:03:27 PM »
No, that button (SOURCES) in GA100S36 is to show a list of suppliers for that plant.
A supplier doesn't get added automatically when you create a Specimen.

Use the program GA004
In the initial screen, click the Supplier Catalogs button.
Takes you to screen GA004S20
That's where you create Supplier Catalog records - which will show up in GA100S36 under SOURCES.
1) Select Hume Seeds from the pop-up (click New if it doesn't exist)
2) Click Add/Get a plant
Screen GA100S00 appears.
To select one of your own plants in your database, under Exploring, Click MY (the default is Master)
Then use the search fields and buttons inside the Explore my database panel.
When you see the plant you wish to add to the catalog, click once to select, then click the Select button.
Screen GA004S21 appears (GA004S20 and GA004S20 are the two new screens to you in this exercise).
Fill in the details from the Hume Seeds catalog in the appropriate fields.
Click Add
Takes you back to GA004S20.
You can build up a list of plants in that screen.
To edit a record, doubleclick, takes you to once again to screen GA100S21.

End of Lesson 1.  :)
To follow - Add to Buy list (play with it and see if you can beat teacher to it ;D).
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Re: Working with a New Specimen in IG Pro 5
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2011, 03:46:11 PM »
George:

OK, I have two packets of Ed Hume seeds that I wish to purchase from Ed Hume direct, and/or
from my local garden center distributor in ‘My Buy List from Ed Hume Seeds Catalog’, GA004S20.

If I buy from Ed Hume direct I can go to their website, by clicking on ‘Go to Suppliers Website’ in that same screen and place my order.

If I purchase from the local distributor, I will need a printed out list of my ‘Plant List’ to take with me shopping..

But in either case, I would like to have a printed list. I thought I saw a way I can do this printing in Reports GA034S01. Can I accomplish a printout?

-Toby

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Re: Working with a New Specimen in IG Pro 5
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2011, 10:52:40 AM »
I'm working on a new "How to-"  for Ideas Genie, Ideas Genie Pro and Bonsai Genie users to explain this feature.

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Re: Working with a New Specimen in IG Pro 5
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2011, 05:38:08 PM »
The new How to is completed. Ive introduced it in a new topic here:
http://www.flowergenie.co.uk/ideas/forum/index.php/topic,1648.0.html

Thanks for prompting this topic Toby. Its a very old feature in Ideas Genie (2002!) and hopefully our members will find it practical (and fun!)