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USER GUIDE
Advanced Section - Session 1
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Essentials Section: User Guide Index - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5
Advanced Section : Session 1 - Session 2
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Creating a website using Bonsai Genie
To introduce this feature, I will describe
three of the many applications.
Application 1
On the internet you’ll find many inconsistencies when you compare articles, particularly in our world of plants.
Problem is, the
information can all be entirely valid. A plant will be perfectly reliable to grow in CountryWarm, but die over winter CountryCold, and vice versa. A plant may flower prolifically in
CountryWarmandSunny but be a very poor performer in CountryWetandCloudy .It depends where the writer lives, and what their experiences have been.
How do you deal with such diverse information,
about one and the same plant?
Reviews are the answer. Instead of putting someone elses information into your plant data record, you can save the information away in another data field, and tag
it to the name of the person who did the writeup, or to a website, or to a magazine article.
Application 2
A Garden Writer, is tasked with compiling a Top 100 list of plants for a magazine
article.
In this application, the writer can add the 100 plants to a list, then use the Bonsai Genie Google buttons to surf the net for information on each of the plants. The information can be
saved in a special data region as a Review.
Application 3
As a spin off, this Reviews program has a unique application. It can be used to prepare the information required to create a Plants
List web site.
In this chapter I will describe the steps for Application 3
The process is the same for the other applications
Creating a Review of a list of plants
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- Start the Program Reviews - GA032
Verifiy that its that latest version. (Ver 39 or later)
- The initial screen GA02S01 appears
There are four tabs (long buttons) near the top of the screen
a) Plants
b) Add selected plant to Review
c) Gardens
d) Reviews
Each time you click a tab, you are in a different mode. The data fields and buttons change.
Click the Reviews tab
- There are 3 check boxes (upper right)
a) Gardeners
b) Suppliers
c) Others
Check the Gardeners
check box
- There are 3 ww buttons, one for each of the 3 check boxes above
Click the ww button to the RIGHT of the Gardeners check box
Screen GA100S37 appears
- In screen GA0100S37
Check the setting of the Gardeners pop-up and reset it if required
ASIDE: If its not the Gardener (Your name) you use most frequently then select from the pop-up, and click the Edit button Screen GA100S11 appears Check the checkbox with the caption Main Garden
Click Change
That setting will appear as default in all programs. You can reset it as often as you like.
- Back to the flow:
In Screen GA100S37, Click the Add New Review button
Screen GA100S38 appears
- In Screen GA100S38
Enter a name in the Title for this review field
Then click the Add Review button
Screen GA100S37 re-appears
- In screen GA100S37
Your Review will appear in the list
Click the Done button
The initial screen (GA032S01)
reappears
- In screen GA032S01
In Reviews mode, make sure the Reviewer
and Review Name is selected
- In Screen GA032S01
Click the Plants tab
Use the Search buttons
to locate a plant
Select a plant
Click the Add to review button
ALTERNATIVELY
- In Screen GA032S01
Click the Gardens tab
Use the pop-ups to select a Gardener and a Garden Area
Select a plant from the list of plants in a garden area
Click the Add to review button
- Click the Reviews tab
The plants you added to the review will appear in the list
- In Reviews mode, click on a plant in the list
Enter some text in the Gardeners review of this plant field
- Repeat either steps 10 or 11 to build up a list of plants in your review
The following steps are not required if you are creating a web site from this review.
- Click the + button to the right of the URL
field
Screen GA100S54 appears
This is a common screen (used many times in the system, by a number of programs)
It allows you to enter unlimited text.
- In screen GA100S54, enter the URL to a web page associated with the selected plant.
Heres a sample URL for the exercise:
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/meredith/Blooms_Plants/Blooms_Plants0009.htm
Click OK button
Screen GA032S01 re-appears
- In screen GA032S01
Click the + button to the right of the Pic URL
field
Screen GA100S54 appears
This is a common screen (used many times in the system, by a number of programs)
It allows you to enter unlimited text.
- In screen GA100S54, enter the URL to a web page associated with the selected plant.
Heres a sample URL for the exercise:
http://www.ideasforgardens.net/meredith/Blooms_Plants/POLEMONIUM%20BRESSINGHAM%20PURPLE.JPG
Note
that this is the image on the web page linked in Step 16
Click OK button
Screen GA032S01 re-appears
- Try this to test the effect of your review
In screen GA032S01, in Reviews mode
Double click on a plant in the list (make sure it has some text in the Gardeners review of this plant
field)
The plant profile screen, GA100S36, appears
- In screen GA100S36
Click the Reviews tab
Your review information is displayed
Whats so good about that?
GA100S36
ia a common screen, common to all programs in the Bonsai Genie system
No matter which program you use to select that plant and navigate to GA100S36 (the Plant Profile screen), that review
information will be available, as will other reviews you may do on that same plant.
END OF SESSION 1
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Features in the screens of the Reviews program
tIn Reviews mode, after you have
added one plant to your review, a WEB
button becomes visible
Session 2 (see link below) explains how to work with that feature (building a web site)
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Essentials Section: User Guide Index - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5
Advanced Section : Session 1 - Session 2
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