AviSys Documentation

Glascow's Fourth Law: ". . . if it doesn't need documentation, then it doesn't do anything worthwhile." It's very likely that your birding software will be the most important program on your computer (unless you run your business there, too). And birding software is not a trivial application -- in fact, it's one of the best examples of how the power and versatility of a computer can serve you So we take AviSys very seriously, and provide the most comprehensive documentation available with birding software. Compared to some expensive birding software that provides no printed documentation, or software that provides a little, unillustrated booklet, AviSys' 136 page, coil-bound (lies flat), 6-3/4" x 9", fully illustrated User's Guide sets the standard for quality and usability. Another AviSys Exclusive! AviSys users consistently compliment our manual.

See a sample page from the Power and Strategy chapter of the User's Guide HERE.

The AviSys User's Guide is organized as follows:

1. The Fundamentals -- covers the basics of AviSys in tutorial form, ensuring that when you are done you can perform about 80% of all the things AviSys can do, including entering sightings, listing sighting records, and running reports.
2. Power and Strategy -- where you get suggestions for applying the power of AviSys to your unique birding records requirements, and where you learn about the more advanced power features that can add considerable depth and power to your data recording and reporting -- such as Attributes, Key Words, Sighting Record Streaming, Initializing, Trip Logs, and Multiple Data Directories. Developing a birding record-keeping strategy that meets your current and future requirements is absolutely vital, and we're here to help you do it right.
3. The Master Checklist -- covers the details of maintaining the Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World and the ABA North America Checklist, including adds, splits and lumps. Here you learn about the Tony White state and province checklists, how to keep them up to date, how to create custom checklists, and how to invoke checklists as integral parts of reports.
4. Listing Sighting Records -- covers additional information about listing sighting records, editing records, mass record editing, complex editing, listing lifers from a trip, and exporting records to other software.
5. Reports -- covers reports in much more detail, including reports not covered in the first chapter, and covers such features as using multiple geographies in report construction. Provides such information as quality publishing output and double-sided printing.
6. The Places Tables -- covers AviSys' structured geography facility in more detail, including maintenance of the tables.
7. Options and Utilities -- covers a wide variety of program options and utilities such as data backup to diskette, hard drive, Compact Flash (CF), SD, ZIP drive, CD, or DVD.
   
   For a comparison of AviSys documentation with other leading birding software, see What's Important?