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Ideas Genie => What we do with Ideas Genie => Topic started by: Trevor Ellis on September 18, 2012, 04:35:14 PM

Title: GA100S02
Post by: Trevor Ellis on September 18, 2012, 04:35:14 PM

Re. GA100S02, I forgot to ask this in the previous post George - What's the C,A,B,L box for?

Cheers

Trevor

Title: Re: GA100S02
Post by: ideasguy on September 18, 2012, 04:49:44 PM

Enter a few characters of text in the Collector/Author field.
Then Enter C, A, B or L into the CABL field. The program will tell you the meaning.
Not used a lot, I'm sure, but its there for the botanists and the purists :)

Title: Re: GA100S02
Post by: Trevor Ellis on September 18, 2012, 05:12:07 PM

Ok - all is clear George. Strangely enough, I'd never entered anything in the collector author box until this morning when I put a couple of breeders' names in the box. Did you intend 'Author' as synonymous with breeder?

Title: Re: GA100S02
Post by: ideasguy on September 18, 2012, 05:21:47 PM

No Trevor, but you can if you wish  ;D
The Author is usually a botanist who studied that plant.
The Breeder name isnt considered as part of the plant name and should go in the Plant Data field in GA100S36
A plant introduced by a collector is different and is part of the plant name (hence the CABL stuff :))

Title: Re: GA100S02
Post by: Trevor Ellis on September 18, 2012, 05:44:31 PM

That all makes sense George - thanks for the info.

Cheers,
Trevor

PS Nice to 'hear' from you again too.

Title: Re: GA100S02
Post by: ideasguy on September 18, 2012, 07:30:32 PM

Glad it makes sense Trevor :)
I put that field in to allow users to enter botanical plant names into Ideas Genie exactly as found in the RHS-Plant Finder. If anyone has a copy they will see what I mean.
Here's an example:
Erythronium dens-canis JCA 470.001   
Now go buying it :) Ive spent a while Googling and on the RHS website leading to one supplier and when I got there, I couldn't find it in their list.

Title: Re: GA100S02
Post by: Trevor Ellis on September 19, 2012, 11:19:12 AM

Know the problem George. The number of times I've found something advertised on the Google index only to find that the company doesn't have it. I think it's just to get us onto the sites in the hope that we'll buy something else (maybe I'm just a cynic!). Very frustrating though. With the RHS plant finder, I don't know if you keep up with the latest version or not. I know that I don't though they advise not to use out of date ones. My latest is for 2010/11. Excellent tome to have though.

Cheers,

Trevor

Title: Re: GA100S02
Post by: ideasguy on September 19, 2012, 12:24:47 PM

Mine is out of date as well, Trevor, but I still refer to it from time to time.
I used it to verify plant names when adding plants to the Master Database in the early days.
Nowadays I use the on-line version - very useful to resolve duplicates found in the Master Database.
Now that Ive mentioned that I'd like to ask our members to report any such anomalies found in the Master Database.