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Linda Ward
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| 11-06-2010 11:35 PM |
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I wish the Subject/Keywords (DetSubject_tab) field that occurs in the Multimedia module was in more modules.
There are many times when we need to pull sets of catalog records that can't be pulled by a simple search that could then be turned into a group. As far as I know there is a limit to the number of records in a static group, so we can't use the static group function either to pull the records later on. Even if you can have an unlimited number of irns in a static group they can become very slow to retrieve. If we could mark records with keywords then we could easily pull sets based on one or more keywords.
This has come up recently for us as we try to pull together our specimens collected from the Gulf of Mexico. Many of our records say "Gulf of Mexico" and are easy to grab but others have only a latitude longitude. Searching on the range of lat/longs leaves you with records that need to be excluded because they are terrestrial, or errors that need to be fixed. Then there are additional searches to include lots from places like Lake Ponchartrain, the Mississippi river delta, etc. This results in more than 80,000 records, well beyond the 15000 record limit that I believe you can have for a static group. If we could add a keyword "Gulf of Mexico" once we have pulled together the records it would make it possible to pull up the records in six months.
I would also like to be able to add a keyword in Collection Events to indicate which are the clean or vetted station data records versus the records that have data that hasn't been vetted. |
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