This is a powerful, advanced feature used by many, but not all, AviSys users.
You can place up to six Attributes in any sighting record, describing such things as habitat, behavior, sex, nesting status, heard-only, photographed, egg count, or anything else you choose. And its so easy -- you just click the items into your sighting records.
Each attribute is a code, consisting of the token / plus one or two characters, in the form /XX. Note that attributes are case sensitive; for example, /g means something entirely different than /G.
A provision is made in all report criteria menus to select records based on these Attributes, in combination with the existing date range, Place, species, Checklist, and Key Word criteria.
The figure above is the screen that is available by clicking the Attribute button when you are entering a sighting comment, editing a record, or entering report or listing criteria arguments. You select the Attributes you need from the screen by clicking on them, and they are automatically inserted into the correct location in your comment or report criteria, The Attribute screen supplied with AviSys is a suggested Attribute coding scheme; you can easily modify it to fit your own requirements. You can have up to 99 Attributes in this window and an additional 5,000 in a drop down list.
Note that the special /OR and /NO attributes are used in report criteria only. They allow you to run reports and listings based on an Attribute not being in the records, such as /NO/h (exclude heard-only records), or any of several Attributes being in the records, such as /S/OR/F (use records from any water habitat -- Salt Water OR Fresh Water).