1 Reply by Matt_tullie

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Re: import - manual taxon matching

Ive just spent the morning matching a whole series of latin taxons in a spreadsheet.

Then I find one of the species obs. is for 'Pisces' and think to myself that we better get rid of that before going on.

So I cancel the import sort out the spreadhseet and do it again - expecting my taxon matches to find themselves automatically.

They don't.

Isnt R6 supposed to remember them for future use?

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2 Reply by charlesroper

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Re: import - manual taxon matching

I think it remembers them after you run the search. I've always been a bit vague on this matter too. Some clarification from John or Steve would be useful...

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3 Reply by Matt_tullie (edited by Matt_tullie 19-06-2008 13:05:46)

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Re: import - manual taxon matching

Theres just no sign of that behaviour here.

'shrug', 'sigh', 'weight of the world on ones shoulders look'.

Whatsmore - looking at the IW_Matched Species table there is no sign of the entries I have just matched.
(this assumes that this is the right table to be looking at).

But then it would seem to work with other data types.

But perhaps it is the process of moving on to the next stage of the import wizrd - i.e. when you press NEXT - the matches commit to the table and can subsequently be recalled.

Which is next to useless actually.

'head in hands,  quiet moaning, a tear splashes onto the desk'.

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Re: import - manual taxon matching

Matt_tullie wrote:

But perhaps it is the process of moving on to the next stage of the import wizrd - i.e. when you press NEXT - the matches commit to the table and can subsequently be recalled.

Spot on. I've often wished it would commit while going back, or exiting, or even on request somehow. One of the biggest annoyances is when Recorder (or Windows itself) crashes during a large import matching session. I think it would be very useful (not least sanity saving) to offer a button to commit the current matches to the database. Kind of like the save button in Word.

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5 Reply by johnvanbreda

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Re: import - manual taxon matching

The "commit" button idea is aa good one, but I would be cautious of any approach where we make changes to the database if you press cancel. This would be very unhelpful if you mess up the matching then need to cancel out!

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