Instructions for Sending Us a Checklist

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You need to send us the checklist via your EMail facility -- you can't send it from this web site. It's easy to do: send an EMail message to upload@avisys.net. Attach the checklist file to the message -- it must be an attachment, not a part of the message. (Instructions to create the checklist file are below. Do not send CHECKLIST.AVI)

Guidelines for Checklists

Checklists should be for areas where you think other AviSys users would be likely to bird -- not your back yard, or grandpa's farm, but parks, refuges, etc., cities, and counties. In particular, county checklists are desired because many AviSys users in your state, or AviSys users visiting your state, want them. Also, we are particularly anxious to get National Park and National Refuge checklists.

Check here to see what we already have.

Specifically, state checklists cannot be accepted because the Tony White checklists are already provided with AviSys. Nation, continent, ABA Area or ABA Region checklists cannot be accepted because they are already available in AviSys or in the Shawneen Finnegan Nation Checklist Add-On.

Message Contents:

In the body of the message, include your name and the sentence, "The attached checklist is not copyrighted and is not from a copyrighted source." As an option, "The attached checklist is copyrighted by XXXXX and I have secured permission from XXXXX at (555)-555-5555, EMail <xxxx@yyyy.net>, to post it to this web site for download by others."

Tell us exactly what area the checklist is for, such as, "Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, WA"; "Broward County, FL"; "Southeast Arizona"; "Pioneer Park, Seattle, King County, WA"; "Djuma Game Reserve, Lowveld Region, South Africa".

If you do not want your name beside the checklist in the listing, tell us.

How to Create the Checklist File

If it's not there already, place the checklist in your Checklist menu:
Checklist | Add | <select the Place> | Mark | <when prompted select the checklist backup file XXXX.CLB>

Invoke the checklist:
Checklist | <double-click the checklist>

Run a Checklist Report to File:
Reports | Checklist | <select the invoked checklist>

At the Print Options dialog:
deselect Use Latin Names; select Use Family Names; click Text File

At the Markers dialog:
select No Checkmark Boxes; deselect Use ' and '' Sighted Markers; deselect Use Endemic Markers; click OK

At the Save As dialog:
Give the file a meaningful, up to 8 character, name -- letters only -- with a .CLB extension -- such as YELSTONE.CLB Write down the name and complete path, such as C:\AVI4\JOHN\CAPEMAY.CLB Then choose Save. This is the file you will send to us as an EMail attachment.

Note: refer to your User's Guide, Chapter 3 (4.52 guide or later) or UPDATE.WRI document, for information on backing up and restoring custom checklists.

EMailing the File:

We can't give you directions for attaching a file to an EMail message -- every EMail program is different. Please refer to the documentation or click Help while in the program to find out how.

After we have received your checklist and vetted it, we will send you a message confirming that it has been posted.

THANKS FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE AVISYS CHECKLIST REPOSITORY!