Things to do to test the new program releases, and see
Whats NewChallenge No 1Program GA032
You can now edit the style sheet plantlist.css, and select colours to suit your WPG project
Start GA032
Select (or create) a review with at least one plant
Click Web button
In screen GA032S04, click Colours (Step 7)
Screen GA032S10 appears
Click the Help button at top of screen
Select colours for your stylesheet.
Click
Save ChangesBack in screen GA032S04, click
Generate and then
View your web site
Repeat and play with the colours!
Challenge No 2GA032
Not obvious to the casual user, but Ive made a major revamp to the magic code that runs when you click the
Generate button
Before
Web pages were allocated sequential numbers, used as URL's in your WPG web sites. e.g.
mybestplants0001.htm
mybestplants0002.htm
mybestplants0003.htm
etc
NEW:
The new page is allocated the next highest number. The sequential order of your Plant List now looks like this:
mybestplants0001.htm
mybestplants0002.htm
mybestplants0004.htm (the NEW item)
mybestplants0003.htm
In the list, the photos are numbered 1 to 4 (no change).
To test this:
Add a new plant to your WPG project
Generate
View
HOVER over each link in the Plants list
Observe the URL which is shown in the status bar at the bottom of your web browser.
More info about this change:If you added a plant, or a photo, which appeared mid way in the list, then the NEW addition would be allocated one of the URL's above, and items further down the list would be allocated a different or new URL
This is undesirable for a number of reasons:
a) Google will index your pages. If you publish a change, google will not know immediately, and visitors who find your page in Search Results will be mis-directed (until Google re-indexes your site).
b) If you have hundreds of pages in your project, then this new change will mean you dont have to upload all the pages if you add a new plant or photo to your WPG project.
c) A link to a certain web page in WPG projects wlll now be consistent.
This is better for the IG community.
Now you can place links to WPG pages created by other members in your own FG, IG, Bonsai Genie or IG Pro database. These links will now be stable.
Challenge No 3Program GA030 and GA005Now you can insert an auto-generated list of plants into the Photo Description field for photos linked to Garden Areas.
You can do this in GA030 or GA005
Start GA030
Link a photo to a garden area as normal.
Now edit the photo as follows.
In GA030S01, navigate to display the linked photo.
The Link details are shown in a window Under the list of files in that folder (the list at right of screen).
In the Link details list, click (to select) on the line beginning with GDN:
(indicating that its a Garden Area link)
Click the
Edit button (only appears when Photo has links)
Screen GA005S04 appears
(note that this is one of the screens "borrowed" from program GA005, so the instructions will be the same for GA005 from this point)
Lassoo one or more plants in your Garden Photo
(If you dont know how to do that, drag the Help (?) icon over the image and release. Help will be shown).
Now click
Photo title and Notes (near the top of screen)
Youve seen the Auto Compose, Undo and Photographer buttons before.
Added to that bank is a new one -
Plants with co-ordinates.
Also a new
Help button is adjacent.
Click
Help - read and all will be revealed.
Heres the relevant extract from the help
The Plants with Co-Ordinates button
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Once you have lassooed one or more plants, you can use this button to generate a list of those plants and add it to the Photo description.
This is useful when the photo description is viewed in other programs, particularly the Web Page Generator (in GA032)
Having the list of plants in the photo description is valuable web page information.
The help will explain that that you must lassoo plants in the photo before they can be added to Photo Notes.
The Challenge:
Click the
Plants with co-ordinates button.
Ummm... thats it!
You should see an auto-generated list of your lassooed plants in the Photo Description field.
Challenge No 4Start GA032
Select (or create) a review with at least one plant
Click
Web button
In screen GA032S04, click
Web Pages (Step 5)
Screen GA032S08 appears
As before, create a thumbnail for one of your plants.
Once you have one thumbnail created for a plant, a
More button becomes visible
Click
MoreOption buttons are revealed.
NEW: There are now 3 option buttons (there were 2 buttons before).
1)
Another Plant Photo (no change)
There is no change to the functionality
2)
Other photo (Renamed - was Garden Photo before)
There is no change to the functionality
3)
Garden Photo NEW
The Help text has been re-written.
Pass the mouse over each of the 3 controls and read up.
Click
Garden PhotoScreen GA032S12 appears
Click
Make a new thumbnailScreen GA032S15 appears
Use the pop-ups to Select a Gardener and Garden Area
For purposes of this challenge, select the Gardener and Garden Area used in Challenge No 3 above.
Click
Continue button
(If no photos are linked to that Garden Area, a message will appear, and you will be prevented from continuing to next screen)
Screen GA100S66 appears
Photos linked to the Garden Area appear as thumbnails.
Click on a thumbnail image to select a photo
Click the
Use this button
The WPG will create a thumbnail in the Web Project folder
Screen GA032S08 re-appears
Note that the notes you created in GA030 (in Challenge No 3) appear in the Notes about this photo field.
If challenge No 3 was completed, the notes will include your list of lassooed plants.
End of challenge No 4
