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Who sells this - How to link plants to suppliers
« on: October 11, 2006, 04:13:37 PM »
Start your Internet explorer ? Refer to this as Session IE
Start Flower Genie ? Refer to this as Session FG

Start FG037 from under the SUPPLIER tab on the menu.
Note that this has a name switch = Nurseries instead of Gardens.

Session IE
Visit the supplier web site
Locate a BUY page for a plant.

Session FG
Click "Add a Plant"
Screen FG100S40 appears
Tab between Session 1 and session 2 to copy info from web page and paste into FG:
Copy and paste plant name
Copy and paste plant data
Copy info from the supplier notes, and paste it into the
appropriate fields available in Flower Genie. Edit where necessary.

Two web links needed are:
1) The BUY Web Page
2) the Photo Web Page ? the on-line web page for the photo

Acquire the URL of the BUY web page as follows:

Session IE.
Right click on the BUY web page
Click Properties
TREBLE click on the Address(URL) data. The whole URL will become highlighted
Right click on data
Click Copy
Alternatively do a Ctrl-A (select all), Ctrl-C (Copy)
Click cancel

Session FG:
Click into the white space at the END of the Plant Data field
Click Enter twice (to create a blank line after your plant data)
Paste the URL
It should appear at the END of the Plant Data, with a blank line between the Plant data and the URL.

Acquire the URL of the PHOTO web page as follows:

Session IE.
Navigate to the largest/best photo of the plant on the supplier web site
Right click on the IMAGE
Click Properties
TREBLE click on the Address(URL) data. The whole URL will become highlighted
Right click on data
Click Copy
Alternatively do a Ctrl-A (select all), Ctrl-C (Copy)
Click cancel

Session FG:
1) Click into the white space at the END of the Plant Data field (after the URL added above)
Click Enter twice (to create a blank line after your plant data)
Paste the URL
It should appear at the END of the Plant Data, with a blank line between the first (BUY page) URL and the Photo URL.
2) Click on the + button beside the Web Address field
Paste the URL again

Click Add.
Plant is added to the database

Click "Add to Garden"
Add the plant to the appropriate catalog section e.g. "Perennials"

Click on the "Who Sells this" button
Screen FG037S02 appears
There are three main tabs. Gardeners, Seed Suppliers and Plant Suppliers
If you set the Type of supply as Plants in the Supplier profile, then this will be clicked by the program automatically on entry to this screen.
Heres the important bit!!
RIGHT click on the line which states "Right click on this line to add a
supplier"
The name of the MAIN supplier in your database appears (for ease, set the Nursery you are working with to main in the Suppler profile program) 
Click on the button with the little arrow pointing RIGHT.
This moves the Plant Data ( as keyed/copied when the plant was added to the
database) into the "Suppliers Description for this Plant" field.
There are 2 buttons pointing Left.

Click on the upper button pointing left.
The Supplier Web Page URL is automatically copied  from the Suppliers Description field and pasted into the Web Page where this plant can be bought field
The software seeks out the second from last URL in the Suppliers Description field for this operation

Click on the lower button pointing left.
The Photo Web Page URL is automatically copied  from the Suppliers Description field and pasted into the Web Photo for this plant field
The software seeks out the LAST URL in the Suppliers Description field for this operation

Click add.

Repeat until boredom sets in!
« Last Edit: January 03, 2007, 05:44:31 PM by ideasguy »