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Mark Riley 
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| 08/29/2007 3:52 PM |
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Jeff,
I think this may have been raised before, however it was some time ago.
Are their any plans to allow the facility to highlight lifers by list? As I understand it this can be done on a World basis now. What I'm looking for is the ability to highlight any species as a lifer for a particular list i.e. North american, state ,county, back yard lists.
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jjones
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| 08/30/2007 11:01 AM |
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Hi Mark,
Are you perhaps talking about Checklists here? If you are, then you have the ability to print out the checklist and have birds you have already seen "checked-off". Therefore, any birds you have not seen will not be checked-off.
Is this what you mean and does this work for you?
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Mark Riley
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| 08/30/2007 11:45 AM |
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Hi Jeff,
thanks, but I was talking about the ability on a life list to highlight a lifer. As an example when I look at my UK, BOU 2007 life list I would like it to identify perhaps by italics or bold any lifers for the UK I have seen that year. This year I saw Pacific Diver for the first time in Britain, I would like it acknowleged as suggested, ignoring the bird I saw in California in 2005. However on a world 2007 list it would not be shown as such.
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Mark
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jjones
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| 08/30/2007 12:31 PM |
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Hi Mark,
Thanks for clarifying. As I understand what you are saying, BD already does exactly that. Although it doesn't show up in italics or bold. But a Life List for UK would show the first diver you saw in the UK and ignore one seen in California. Add a date, location and comments to the life list and you get details about where/when, etc.
Am I making headway?
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Mark Riley
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| 08/30/2007 4:22 PM |
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Hi jeff,
Your on the right track. I keep a (life) list of my sightings for every year. I suppose what I'm after is the ability for UK Lifers to stand out from the crowd, so that I can easily count them for any one year. Hope this makes sense.
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jjones
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| 08/31/2007 9:55 AM |
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Hi Mark,
Nothing like that exists - and by "that" I mean the ability to produce a World Life List, for example, and have those that occured in the UK show up in bold.
What you can do of course, is to produce a World Life List, add Location as a column, move it to the top of the column list, and then sort and group on that column. This will group all your lifers by location and give you what you are looking for - I think.
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Mark Riley
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| 08/31/2007 11:56 AM |
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Hi Jeff,
Can I just clarify, I'm not looking for a world list that identifys UK lifers. Is it possible to have a UK year list, which I keep every year, using the life list facility. I would like as suggested UK lifers highlighted. This would not affect a World list, or any other list for that matter. If I had seen the UK lifer say in North America it would not show on a NA or World list as a lifer. However if it was a completly new species then it would show on all lists as a highlighted lifer
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cowboyinbrla
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| 08/31/2007 5:37 PM |
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In case Mark's request isn't quite clear: I think this is what he means.
Let's say I run a report showing all sightings for Location A for a given time period, for example the current year. What he's suggesting as I understand it is, any sightings that fall onto that list, which were lifer sightings for Location A, should be highlighted. So if I ran my "Florida List" for calendar year 2007, any birds which I saw in Florida during the 2007 year, which were also the first time I'd seen that bird in Florida (ever), would be highlighted.
From a programming perspective, I don't think a single query could do it-- presumably, each of the results of the initial query (all birds seen in Florida in 2007) would have to be tested to see if that was the earliest Florida sighting of that bird). So I'm certain it would be rather complex. |
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jjones
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| 08/31/2007 8:18 PM |
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Hi,
What Kevin is stating of course is not currently doable. But it is on the list from earlier.
Mark - let me know if Kevin hit it on the nose.
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Mark Riley
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| 09/01/2007 6:13 AM |
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Hi Jeff/kevin
Kevin is spot on. One for the future then. Can't complain, we get most of what we want
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