I am trying to build a Trees Taxonomy matching Sibley's Guide to Trees since it is significantly different than the present Trees of NA taxonomy.  And I hope to make the taxonomy and checklist (North America) available to Birder's Diary.  

I wanted to add "generic" names for Sibley's groupings of trees (such as White Pine Group and Yellow Pine Group under the Pine Family (Family Pinaceae, Genus Pinus). 

I can add the first (White Pine) group (got the red box icon), but when I try to add the second (Yellow Pine) group, also under the Genus Pinus, I get the pop-up 'Duplicate Classification/Tax List!' error, and the message 'This Classification is already used by this Taxonomic List!" message.  I tried to add the Yellow Pine Group again by using a slightly different Thing name, and got the same error.

The User Guide instructions on how to add a "generic" species do not appear to be current (e.g. the  'Wizard' did not come up) and I couldn't get the Video instructions to come up, so I am struggling a little.  I am current on my BD software.

What I had hope to achieve is:

Genus Pinus

     Generic (red icon) White Pine Group

          (White pine species)

     Generic (red con) Yellow Pine Group

          (Yellow pine species)

Sibley groups many species and I think this feature would be very useful.

I have two screen shots which I could email you.    

I just read the 'How To Forum' posting dated 12/8/08 by Jeff and will try what he is suggesting. 

Basic question - can I have two different 'generics' under the same Genus?

Thanks,

-Joe Byrnes

Joe,

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Regards, Al Borodayko

Hi Joe,

Sorry for the late reply. I am actually out birding this weekend.

You cannot add more than one group-level thing per group (e.g. family, genus, etc).

It is a limitation we are looking into correcting for a future version.

Jeff