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One of the advantages of this type of list and having the person that designs and writes the software is a part of the list and it provides a direct line of communication not normally available with software products. I appreciate the comments about my products and do pay attention to them. The current suggestions we've been working on were the ability to do a backup of your data to your location and the need to get an Excel accessible export. We now have answers for both. Under the utilities section there is now a one click, all inclusive backup. This is a backup that we can restore your site from. It is not readily human readable, it is made for our restore system to read. This is meant for catastrophic situations - someone mistakenly goes through and deletes a large amount of data for example. We still backup the whole site each night for our purposes. For the Excel export we've added a link on the Reports page to an Export page. There are two options on this page. The first will let you define a start and end observation date (defaulting to your first and last observations entered) and then you can download the information in a CSV file format that can easily be imported into Excel. Once in Excel it can be sorted, graphed, printed and more. The second option is a complete download of all of your images - Maps, Icons, Photos etc. They are in the size and format that they were when you uploaded them. To answer the mapping concern - we have incorporated something that we think will work for many. Under the Map section you can upload a jpeg version of your floor map. Our aim was to make a system that was easy to use but did not require additional software. Once the map is upload you can add icons to the map that represent your traps. Along with a link to the map location there is a link to the trap details. This allows you to visually look at a floor map and see the placement of your traps, click on each icon and see the details of each map. You can delete a trap from a map once it has been placed. There is also a set of generic icons (you can add your own icons in addition) that you can place on the maps. This is good for noting various things such as water leaks, food containers, event notes and more. One of the enhancements we will be working on to the maps section and to the observation section is the ability to scroll through dates and visually observe changes in pest counts. And of course down the road apps are in the vision. I am not a fulltime museum professional. But, most fulltime museum professionals are not programmers. If I did not listen to the practicing professionals in this field I would end up with the greatest program for pest control that programmers would want. Therefore I welcome and depend on your feedback. That way we all win. leon ... -----Original Message----- From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Katharine Elise Corneli Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:11 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] FW: Zak's software This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi there, I've only recently joined the pestlist and so apologize if this is a repeat of topics previously covered. We are looking for a good database system for recording IPM information. We had been using Zak's ZPest software for Windows and exporting the data into excel. This was a pretty slow process however and we are now experimenting with an online database by the same developer at collectionpests.com. This too seems to have it's drawbacks and I am wondering if anyone uses it and what their thoughts are. I would also like to know if anyone uses other programs or databases that they could recommend. We have about 80 sticky traps throughout our museum and check them every two months, recording each insect that we find. Then we map any high risk incidents using photoshop. The whole process takes 2-3 days and I would be grateful for any time saving suggestions you might have. Thank you, Katy Corneli Assistant Collections Manager Utah Museum of Fine Arts 410 Campus Center Drive Salt Lake City Utah, 84112 801-585-9769 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
