[Therion] Team member who didn't do any survey

[Jonny]

I was thinking of using explo-team, but technically it wasn't exploration.
We were sketching passage that we had surveyed on a previous trip, when we
didn't sketch. I could certainly simply put him in as a sketcher in the data
associated with the previous trip. He wasn't on that trip though, and that
would mess up the historical value of my documentation, because it would be
innacurate :-).

Perhaps I should explain my particular difficulty. It's probably an artifact
of the way I have my data organized. I create a seperate map/endmap pair for
each individual trip. I then have a root map/endmap pair which is used to
include all of the maps from each individual trip. This allows me to quickly
add or remove survey data from the map as the need arises.

So the problem is that on trip 9, there was no data collection. I created a
survey for trip9 to record the fact that we went in and sketched, but I
assume since there was no survey data collected (assuming sketches don't
count), therion won't include my friends name on the map, even though it
doesn't complain about my trip9.th file during compilation.

I know of several ways to force therion to include the name, but I don't
want to force it. I can think of numerous other places where including
people on the map that did not survey would be useful. The cave we are
surveying has signatures that Union soldiers scratched into the walls during
the Siege of Chattanooga in 1863. It would be nice to be able to include the
name of the historian that determined this, since the signatures will
probably be indicated on the map. I know of no way to do this however, since
no survey data was collected on that trip.

So I guess this is more of a request for Stacho to add the ability to
include more team roles and not constrain them to being associated with
centerline data. I realize this is probably a HUGE headache though, so more
than likely I'll just force the names onto the map. If a major change in how
team data is stored within Therion eventually becomes necessary for some
other reason, however, it would be GREAT to include this functionality!!

Thank you all very much for your advice, btw. I appreciate it greatly!

-Jonny ^v^

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Duncan Collis <duncan.collis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > I know how to include team members, I just don't know how to get Therion
> to
> > include team members when there was no survey collected.
>
> Use the commands:
>
> explo-date <date>
>
> and
>
> explo-team <person>
>
> within your survey data file.  The values of <date> and <person>
> should reflect when that section of passage was explored and by whom.
>
> So, you might have something like this:
>
> explo-date 2006.02.28
> explo-team "Person A"
> explo-team "Person B"
> date 2006.03.04
> team "Person A" notes
> team "Person C" compass clino
> team "Person D" tape
>
> in the example above Person A was on both the exploration and the
> survey trips, whilst Person B only took part in the exploration -
> however they will still get credited on the final survey.
>
> Duncan
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