Re: Toolkit for installing 6.10
Here's what I took out today to install Recorder 6.10 on a friend's PC:
Nice shiny new ringbinder containing:
1. Printed installation instructions from the 6.10 standalone disk
2. Registration forms complete with Site ID & registration code
3. Printout of some Sally Rankin workshop
4. Printout of Stuart Ball's Recorder Guide
5. Printout of the part of the new Recorder Help file which explains all about the import fields
6. Recorder 6.10 standalone installation disk
7. A copy of my friend's spreadsheet data on a USB flash disk
8. A preliminary attempt in that same spreadsheet file, to match his fields to those needed by Recorder
9. Laptop with Excel
10. Assistant (Lizzy)
Installation was a breeze
But we finished up with several essential things missing:
11. All the Vice-Counties in mif format (surely this is a basic for 90% of new users - why can't they be on the CD)
12. The Vice-Counties as Locations (N.B. these two would have given me a chance to demonstrate good housekeeping wrt an hierarchical tidying of Locations)
13. The facility to import Sample ref (an absolute essential - heard of target notes in Phase 1 surveys?)
14. The facility to filter on same
15. The facility to filter on Surveyor's reference
16. The facility to delete Survey (needed in order to perform several test imports using 8.)
17. A page or two on the CD entitled "Getting started" which would help anyone else in my position, trying to cover the above
Suggestions please:
1. What extra things would you take (no smart answers from Hampshire LRC about 10.)
2. Why is there a difference between our LRC installation & items 13 to 15 - and how can I fix these for my friend
3. When will 16. be ready