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Re: Update on Recorder project Oct 07

Sincere apologies for not providing a general update on the Recorder project for quite some time. I’m about to go on annual leave so will post more details on this on my return. However, in the mean time the following is a basic outline of our next steps:

•    Next species dictionary update – awaiting further changes to be made by the NHM. As soon as a new copy of the dictionary is provided we can begin extracting this information and building the update scripts for Recorder 6.

•    Finish off and release some outstanding Recorder 6 addins – the priorities are the Delete Survey addin and the NBN Exchange addin, but we also need to look into an issue with the DMAP addin (which currently cannot be used if Recorder 6 and Recorder 2002 are both installed on the same machine).

•    Provide some guidance for installing on Windows Vista. Note: this is not formally supported as yet, but a small number of users have installed Recorder 6 on Vista using SQL Express

•    Development of the next version of Recorder 6
            o    Will include a number of bug fixes and the enhancements prioritised by the Recorder steering group (see following post for further
                 details - http://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?id=476)
            o    More revisions to Recorder 6 Help
            o    A small number of additional XML reports


Best wishes,

Sarah Shaw
Biodiversity Information Assistant
JNCC