Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:47:50 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: John C Levine Subject: Re: AviSys Software Opinions Fwd from Jerry Blinn re numbers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, In response to Cliff's post I forwarded it to Jerry Blinn since I had never=20 seen Cliff's comments before, so I wanted to see if Jerry had an answer. He= re=20 is Jerry's answer to my inquiry. Quote: The reports that use the count information are the Census reports, which are= =20 relatively rudimentary (n-years by month, 12 months by month, and 10 years b= y=20 month. The variety of requirements for use of numbers was almost infinitely= =20 wide and deep, and I had no intention of recreating Excel within AviSys.=20 Really numbers oriented people use the Export facility, with which AviSys=20 data can be poured into Excel or Access. Then the numbers and other data ca= n be=20 manipulated to meet any requirements. (Numbers, and all other fields,=20 including Place hierarchy expansion and Attributes, are broken out during Ex= port.) I gather that Cliff wants a simple Species Seen report, but with the numbers= =20 (totaled) alongside the species. I've had about three requests for that ove= r=20 the years, explaining its relatively low priority. It can sometimes be done= =20 with a Census report, but it's not a clean result because a lot of empty=20 columns result. Feel free to pass this (excuse?) on to whomever may be interested. Jerry At 08:23 PM 11/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: Jerry, =20 There is a conversation going on MDOSPREY about AviSys and this is a comment= =20 that I have not seen before so if you can comment either directly or to me a= nd=20 I will forward it. =20 I know that you can put the amount of birds seen in the first space of the=20 comment line and it will record this information which is available in the l= ist=20 of records, but are there actually reports that give this information? =20 Thanks, Great birding and find that next lifer, John (One of Birders2) John + Irma =3D 2, we are birders, too. John C. LeVine Birders2@aol.com Los Angeles, CA=20 The problem with Modern Man is he can no longer see the stars at night through his city lights. =A9 -*-*-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* A thought on a moonless night in Big Bend National Park 4/30/97 -*-*-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================