On Dec 20, 2010, Bruce <dangle@tomo.co.nz> wrote:
By survey ‘name’ do you mean what the therion book calls the ’id’?
I am not sure on this, as the tables in the sql export also use ID, but I think in a slightly different way. eg in the survey table there is an ID a name and full_name plus title. My feeling is that ID referred to in the therion book is the name referred to in the table and full_name is the ID you put after the @ when referring to surveys, eg Portal_pool.2009.Charterhouse.
I always use id and title for surveys but I have not been using ‘id’ or ‘title’ for centerlines, didn’t notice they were available – will help me with my organization!
I posted on a similar topic a year or so ago. I’d like much better list control with optionally many more of the fields that therion collects. At present they are too limited, the data is ‘in’ Therion, but we can’t get it out.
But I think this might be something that Therion does not have as input, however for the none therion user is important to the end user. It is one of the questions I am asked most
To me the ‘title’ is or should be representative of the name that cavers colloquially use, so that gets rid of one of your ‘names’.
I may agree, I am in that sort of thnking nprocess, but would it work for both survey and centreline?
Don’t have time to get to the gist of what you are trying to achieve, sorry, but maybe later…
Hope you have time later, other thought would be welcome, my mind is spinning
I agree that the database is potentially quite useful, but my fumbling experimentations have only ever resulted in extremely cumbersome beasts that, without considerable database experience, are just too hard to use.
Have you a secret to making database usage available to the masses?
That is what I am working on, but give me some time.....months....years Andrew