Just off the top of my head, here are a few suggestions:

Report Wizard:
- 1km (I think the wizard already has this)
- 2km (tetrad)
- 5km
- 10km
- Plus easting/northings (centred) for each of the above.

Import Wizard
- Determination Date
- Determination Comment

I'll have a think and post some more tomorrow when I'm back in the office.

A few thoughts and suggestions:

Report Wizard:

Observation:
It would be good to have as part of the standard install Obs All Measurements (LC) as created by Mike Weidelli to have all obs in one column, as used to be R2K2.

Obs Confidential - this may be useful to report on as a separate report
Agree with David Related Occurrences / Associated Species

Sample:
Sample Type

Taxon: Statuses:
In a similar fashion to the Obs All Measurements (LC) it would be good to have these available in one column separated by a comma to save having to guess which designation is wanted to be reported on / which status a particular spp has.

Import Wizard:

I assume these are the most costly additional functions to add?

Event Weather
Distinctions between Event, Sample and Taxon Occurrence Comments
It would be great to be able to import into Taxon Occurrence Measurements based on the Measurement Type one has in their system, e.g. Abundance, Breeding Status, Behaviour, but not broken down to then its individual Qualifiers. When recording on a spreadsheet or database one does not tend to have a column (or at least should not in terms of good data management) for each qualifier of e.g. Male, Female, Juvenile, Exuvia, Individual, etc. These are recorded in one column and if there is one male and one female then that is two records. They can of course then go against the same species Taxon Occurrence but as two separate Measurements when importing.
But in the same fashion you may have a separate column that specifies that the species taxon occurrence record had a breeding status of confirmed, and had another column for behaviour of e.g. Bathing, Emerging, Singing/Calling, etc. Thus, it would be great to be able to import these in that way.

Location Name (when this is specifically different to Location)
Sample Start Time
Sample Duration
Sample Ref.
Sample Type
What is Record ID?
Is Sampling Method the same as Sample Type? If so it would be good to have it standardised.
What also is Site ID?

And I think all that would great please :)

Cheers

Brian

Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to search through the Recorder 6 Report wizard, so forgive me if this already exists.
We are looking to produce a summary list of the records for the study areas within consultant requests. We are hoping to produce a list of the taxanomic Order, number of records, first record, latest record. This will be of use for two reasons.
1) It will give a basic overview of the biodiversity of the area
2) It will highlight how recorded / under-recorded (more likely) an area is
We could generate statistics for the whole County to give a baseline upon which the consultant could base comparisons.
However, in order to achieve this, we would ideally need to pull out the taxonomic Order as part of a report. I know this would be completely unworkable within Recorder 2002, as not all dictionaries have levels of taxonomy lower than Order; in fact some do not have levels higher than species.
However, I do not know whether this is something that could use the Nameserver facility, or whether it would be possible at all.
Changing slightly, the ability to report the Taxon Occurrence Key could be useful when people want to check specific records (again, this might already exist, I haven't had a chance to check).
Thanks
Lee

Hi Sally,

Thanks for the info. The help was one of those things I had not got round to downloading and copying over, but now having done so, yes it does explain those two, as well as all the others... and much more, great job:)

Many thanks

Brian

Just been trying to look at easier ways to enter some data and thought I could import it from Excel... but can not... Thus an additional thing is it would be great to be able to import Sample Measurements in similar ways to Taxon Measurements, with the combined method, and also in the individual method please?

Thanks

Brian

just repost from: http://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?id=501

There are LRCs and county recorders start receiving recorder from their website, which including rECOrd. We have developed a rather complex Online Input System, which recorder can manage their records and recording files, integrated validation routine, gis raster map, etc. The system is using taxon dictionary, recorder name, etc extracted from Recorder, which including key that generated by recorder.

The current problem is when exporting data from our system then importing into recorder and there are recorders with same name. it's not possible to differentiate between persons with same name. These problem also rise when recorder inputting common name such as redshank, which could be bird or plant. We have got round this common name problem by using latin name. But there are other species that has the same latin name.

By allowing Recoder import wiz to import key (recorder key, taxon key, location key etc) should solve this problem??

Cheers

Luck

Another few for the report wizard:

Location File Code
Type
Grid Ref
Description

Yes.

The Recorder 6 Import Wizard can import Publication Reference which goes onto the taxon ccurrence, and Determination Reference which goes in the Work field on the taxon determination. In both cases, if present, the wizard will ask you to match these to documents in the Document list. This option is not present in the Recorder 2002 Import Wizard. In Recorder 6 the Import Wizard allows users to import 29 different column types but in Recorder 2002 you can only import 17. More are planned for version 6.11. For the full list, see the help in version 6.10.4: Help – Contents tab – Tasks – Exchanging data – Import data – Import Wizard – Data Format.

Please note that if you have installed Recorder 6 using a v6.10.4 CD you will have the revised help but if you have upgraded from an earlier version you will not have it unless you have installed it as specified in Sarah’s post 12/10/07, http://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?pid=2060#p2060.

Hi Sally,

It would be useful to include 'Publication Reference' as an exportable field in the Report Wizard (I had a look through the available fields and I can't seem to be able to see it currently there, though I may have missed it).

Many thanks,

Andy

There is a report wizard attribute under Observation called obs source. This picks ups the Author, Date and publication details. have a look at this and if it isn't want you want I can look at adapting it for you.