On thefirst window of the report wizard select  restrict report to one or more designations. Not sure if this will help as can't try just at the moment, but it is a place to start. Let me know how you get on and if necessary I will research further.

It will of course and only those you have data for. An XML report will be easy enough to do and  I think there are some   about which will do this or nearly so. I often do reports for users, but don't make them generally available, because they need tidying up for general release, which is sometimes more time consuming than doing the basic rerport (and less interesting). I will have a look later today.

As far as the other things you mention are concerned,  the use of addins to do other jobs is a much more realistic option than changing core recorder. For one thing they are cheaper (I can do them) and don't require the level of testing or  approval that a change to the core system requires.   Addins need to be carefully specified, as changes after they are done can be difficult. If you want to give some thought to what you want I may be able to do something later this year.

Thanks for your comments Mike/Rob. I managed to produce the list I needed by, as you say, producing the records and then processing the results in Excel. But this would miss spp. for which there are no records. Interesting to read the chat that my initial enquiry has generated. Agreed, the ability to edit/view taxa with given designation would be a very useful feature to have, and Rob is not alone in being asked for spp. with specified designation.

Mike you are a star, although your choice of weekend entertainment suggests that you might need to get out more.

The add-in loaded successfully and looks like it will do the job, although I don't have time for any rigorous testing right now. I will post more when I have a chance to run it through its paces.

Thanks. Will fix when have other comments or bugs reported. There is also an Addin for Managing User Added  Taxa if anyone is interested in it. Covers creating and managing users added taxa, including being able to include them in the correct place in taxonomic sorts/hierarchy.  Also replacing them when NHM taxa becomes available. (needs 6.18 or above)

Not sure if it has been mentioned before. It has only been tested by me, so will be very pleased if anyone can give it a try. It can affect taxon determinations so some care is required.

Mike

We just tried out your ManageDesignationSets addin, for the first time in a real situation. It works fine, but I have a couple of observations:

Firstly it is not entirely intuitive when it comes to adding and removing designations from the set. I think this is because in most other situations where you have two boxes side by side listing items, as you do in the bottom half of the addin (such as in the taxon selection part of the wizard), it seems to be customary to have the destination pane (in this case the contents of the designation set) on the right & the available items on the left. Confused us for a minute or two because we were trying to remove one item from an existing set and were presented with two full listboxes.

Second, it would be nice to have a confirm changes button, rather than having the addin update the database live. It would be only too easy to edit something wrongly and then close the addin, assuming the error would be lost, especially if you had made several changes.

Finally (and this is a cheeky one), the other thing i mentioned above was having the ability to edit the local designations themselves. I envisage a similar addin screen where you can select a local designation & see all the taxa which are designated, along with the ability to add and remove taxa from the designation. I can see that this might be a bit more complex, but if you ever have a bit of time on your hands...

Many thanks for an already useful bit of kit though.