No more set all feature on new plants?

I have noticed in the last few plants that I have added that the option to set all the plant info is no longer available so I have to enter each one and then go back to the main page of the plant to enter the info on the next category.

Is there anyway we can have this feature back? It saved so many steps.
Thanks

It's down at the bottom now, same spot where you can add to your journal or trading. At least it was there last week, hopefully it still is!

LOL Liz!! I just knew it would be you that would answer me. I can always count on you. Thanks. It is so depressing when you are ignored.

And I could also count on the fact that I must have looked at it at least 20 times this week as I entered pictures to PlantFiles and no bell rang till after I started this thread and then went to post another photo to PlantFiles. Then I not only looked at it but saw it too. LOL Sometimes there just is no one at home!!

Well, when something's been in one place for ages and then all of a sudden it moves it can be very hard to notice it! I don't think you were the only one who couldn't find the link, I remember some posts on the DG forum a week or two ago from other people who couldn't find it either!

I went looking for this magic button Kell wrote of to "set all the plant info" when filling in the Plant File data. Has it since been removed? Adding one detail at a time - while tedious to the point of... ummmm, very tedious... just seems downright silly in the computerized era.

And, with the Hybridizer and Year differently (ie. unlike the other data boxes) separated out from the CV Name, they seem to get missed at times, especially with the older cultivars. As my top gardening interest is Historic Irises, perhaps I just notice this more. Most do not have the 1939 and '49 AIS Check Lists sitting on their desk, and since this information is not on the AIS-Search site, it can be tough to find it if you don‘t already have it in your own database. I realize these can be added later as a comment, but its not the same. Perhaps the hybridizer/year part could be set-up like all the other data areas, so it too could be added later if missed the first time.

Also, when other details could be added to existing data such as 'neutral' pH to one already filled in as just 'mildly acidic', or ‘partial shade’ when only ‘full sun‘ was checked - that would be great - but does not seem possible to do. It seems like once these portions have been filled in or 'missed' - they are 'closed'. Could there simply be a button to ‘re-open’ the areas?

Edited to note that Kell refers to NEW forms and I do not have a new cv to add at the moment to check. I have been working with near-completed forms - and my comments likely apply to both.

The more magic buttons there are… the merrier the time entering data!
Thanks for checking/considering ~ hespiris

This message was edited Nov 14, 2008 3:12 AM

Just added a NEW cv in the irises, and there the option to 'Set All Details' exists. I am so glad Kell brought this up as I had not noticed it. Perhaps I only have this when I am the one initiating the entry?

Could this feature be added for those Plant Files that have been initiated and filled in partially by others?
Thank you again, hespiris

You can only do the set all details when you're the one that made the entry originally. I think the reason you don't get that option with entries that other people made is that set all details opens up every single section and you can change what's been previously checked off as well as filling in new details, and for entries that were created by other people you're not allowed to change what they already checked off. If you spot entries where people entered information that's incorrect, or incomplete in the case of the acidity that you mentioned above, click on "report an error" and you can let admins know what the correct entry should be. It will help if you can provide them a reference of some sort to support your position (unless it's something really obvious like someone said an iris could get 10 ft tall)

ecrane3 is correct in that you cannot change what someone else has entered. If this wasn't the case, we would have the information continually revolving to whatever the last person who entered the data thought was correct. The next time you looked at the entry, the data could be totally different again if someone else thought it should be something else. That's why the best thing to do when you find errors is to report them to us and we'll take a look at them.

About the iris hybridizers and intro year, please do let us know when you find entries that are missing that information. I spent several years working on the iris and adding that information, but there were some that I never could find. I guess it's because I don't have the old checklists like you do. ^_^ We would be eternally grateful if you could supply us with that information when you find it's missing.

Thank you both for your responses. I can appreciate that the data would might become disorganized quickly if everyone got to change anything..... tip o' the hat to the editors for your responsibility. I do not think of them as 'errors' but rather as omissions... in my next 1/2 century, I'm going to really have to work on that 'literal thing' I have. Sometime, I just can't see the forest from the trees!
Thank you again,
hespiris