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User Guide - Session 10
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The Master Database - 1000’s of plants on CD
In this lesson you will learn how to:
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- Use the Master Database of Plants and Gardens on CD
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Flower Genie comes with an empty database.
Its for you to personalise, by adding only the plants you grow, plan to buy, grow from seed etc.
To help you build up your own personal database, we have merged the 1000’s of plants grown by users of our
software to produce The Master Database.
Lots of plants, lots of Garden Photos, organised in a logical structure.
You can save time by browsing the Master Database using Flower Genie, and copying plants wich
take your fancy to your own database.
At time of preparation of this document, there are more than 9200 plants in the database, and 1000’s more to be added.
The plants are from members in the UK, Belgium
and USA (mostly WA), and suitable for a range of Hardiness Zones.
The database is still in draft stage, and its meant to be a resource to be shared by users of our software.
The Master Database is also
a Plant Finder. Plants can be linked to participating Nurseries and Seed Suppliers, You’ll click a hyperlink to go directly to the BUY page on the appropriate web site.
When you see a plant you like, you can
copy it from the CD, into your personal Flower Genie database on your computer. If the plant has a photo, that is also copied for you AND it is automatically linked to what has now become your new plant.
Heres a few tips on how to get the most from this resource.
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- Put the Master CD in the drive
- Start Flower Genie
- Start Program: My Plants and Gardens - FG037
- Use the Data Source pop-up to select the Master Database from the drop-down list
Screenshot
This closes your Flower Genie database (disc) and opens the Master Database on CD
Things you can do:
In PLANTS mode (you are in PLANTS mode when you start this program)
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- In screen FG037S01 - Use the A-Z buttons to explore the plants and photos on the CD
- Select a plant. Click the Edit button. Screen FG100S40 appears showing the Plant Profile
In FG100S40 you can click the Google
button to do an on line search for more information about the plant.
- In screen FG037S01 - Click on the image
Screen FG100S07 appears, showing a Full Size display of the photo
Click anywhere in FG100S07 to return to FG037S01
Remember Click-Click
- In screen FG037S01 - RIGHT click on the image
Screen FG100S20 appears, showing the Title and notes about the Photo
RIGHT Click anywhere in FG100S20 to return to FG037S01
Remember Right-Click - Right-Click
- In screen FG037S01 - RIGHT Click in the Plant Data text box (lower right of screen)
Screen FG100S09 appears, showing the Plant Data as a document in a large Text box.
In this screen you can use the Web Address
button to highlight any URL’s in the document
When a URL is highlighted, click the Go to Web Page button
Flower Genie opens your Web Browser. The internet web page is displayed.
- In screen FG037S01 - Under <-AUTO->, (bottom of screen) Click the Go button
This runs a slide show of the plants in the current display list
When the last plant in the list is reached, the slide show automatically advances to the next Alpha list
You can set the speed of display by typing a value (seconds) in the field under <-AUTO->
Hover over these fields for Tool Tip Help Text
NOTE: When you click the Go button, the caption changes from Go to X>
Click the X button to stop the slide show.
COPY A PLANT - From the CD into your Flower Genie database
- In screen FG037S01 - Select a plant.
Click the Copy This Plant button Screenshot
Screen FG100S40 appears Screenshot
Edit if you wish.
Use the Google
Search button if you wish
Use the SurfBoard if you wish
Click the Add button
The Plant is added to your personal Flower Genie database on hard disc
Since photos in the database are originals, good-to-high quality, and contributed by many sources, we have decided to protect owner
copyright by embedding the Photos in the Master Database, rather than to supply the photos as image files.
Thus, photos are NOT copied to your database in the Copy a Plant process..
In GARDENER mode -
- In screen GA037S01, click the Gardener button, located to the left of the A-Z buttons
- A new set of controls (pop-ups and buttons) appear
- In this mode, you can explore the organisation of the plants in the Master Database
- Click on the Gardener pop-up and explore the list
In addition to Gardeners and Public Gardens, you’ll find a number of Nurseries, Awards, and other topics
- If you select a Gardener, you can explore the Garden Areas and plants grown by that gardener
- If you select a Public Garden, you’ll find Garden Areas and plants which will be on display in that garden
Now we show some variations, and illustrate other uses for these pop-ups.
- If you select Gardener = Master Database, you’ll find we’ve used the Garden Areas
pop-up to categorise plants by colour, plants for herbaceous borders, plants for various Sunlight conditions etc.
- Select Gardener = Top Selections
In the Garden Area
pop-up you’ll find my Top 100 plants, Long Flowering Period Plants
The possibilities are endless. The Master Database is a continual work in progress.
Running Garden/Nursery Slide Shows on the Master Database
- Start the program Gardens Slideshow - FG014
- Not all Gardens have photos yet, so you’ll have to explore
- Select a Garden e.g. Ballyrobert Cottage Garden & Nursery - one of the nicest gardens I have had the pleasure to visit - and a first class Nursery.
- Click the Start the show button
- The slide show commences
During the slide show you can click Pause. More buttons appear allowing you to go Previous
, view the notes associated with the photo (Photographer, location etc) , and a Go button to click when you wish to resume running the slide show.
- When you use Ideas Genie or Ideas Genie Pro to run the slide show on the Master Database, plants in photos are lassooed. You can use extra controls to point to plants and reveal their names.
Lassoing is not available in Flower Genie.
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