Date Range allows you to restrict the sighting records to those with sighting dates within the range of dates you supply. The allowable dates are from 1/1/1930 to 12/31/2029. The Date Entry Dialog is used.
This Year will insert the date range 1/1/(current year) to 12/31/(current year). This saves keystrokes when you are selecting a year-to-date report.
Last Year will insert a date range of 1/1/(previous year) to 12/31/(previous year).
Seasonal completely changes the meaning of the date range. For example, a Seasonal date range of 6/13/89 through 8/21/92 actually means “Select the records that occurred between the dates June 13 and August 21 for each of the years 1989 through 1992. (To be sure we’ve been clear—a record on September 3, 1990 would not be included.) In essence, you can define your own “seasons,” and list records for them for any range of years. Another AviSys Exclusive!
Place allows you to restrict the sighting records to those assigned to the Place you select and any Places linked to it. For example, selecting Georgia would include sightings assigned directly to the state of Georgia, plus those assigned to Atlanta, DeKalb county, Stone Mountain, Tara, etc. (A special facility, Z-LIST, allows you to use multiple Places. Another AviSys Exclusive!)
Attributes provide a means to select and/or reject records based on such criteria as habitat, sex, maturity, behavior, photographed, heard-only, etc. You can create up to 100 formal Attributes which you select from a table, 5,000 in a drop-down list, and you can have an unlimited number of informal Attributes. Attributes can be used with such operators as AND, OR and NOT to provide comprehensive control of listing assembly. Another AviSys Exclusive!
Key Words provide a means to select records based on words or phrases in the comments. This also provides a way to select for an unlimited number of locations in addition to the formal Places. You can create up to 100 formal Key Words which you select from a table, 5,000 in a dropdown list, and an unlimited number of informal Key Words.
First Sightings selects the earliest sighting, within the other selection criteria, for each species. Only one record, the earliest, will be presented for each species.
First Chrono produces results identical to First Sightings, but lists the records in date sequence—a chronology of your first sightings.
First + Last selects the earliest and latest sightings within the other criteria. Two records are listed for each species, unless there is only one record for a species or there is more than one but all are on the same date.
Normal clears any selected “First” button.
Load and Store: If you will be using a listing frequently, once you have it set up you can Store the listing criteria as a named report. When you want to run it again, you just click Load, select the listing by name, and the criteria are automatically set up.
Trips is used to pick up listing criteria automatically from the AviSys Trip Log.
We have described the listing options of First Sightings and First Sightings Chrono, which produce only the first (earliest) records for each of the species seen on the described (Place and Date) trip—basically one record per species, the earliest. (The Chrono option presents the records in date sequence rather than species sequence.)
These options, when a Date and/or Place criteria is used, present a secondary prompt, “Do you want ONLY LIFERS seen this trip?” If you respond positively, the entire meaning of the “First” option changes—now it means really first, life sightings only. This is how you ask the question, “Which of the sightings on that trip to Texas last week were lifers?”
There is an additional provision to ensure that a selected "lifer" record is truly the first record, even if you saw, and recorded, the same life bird more than once on the same day.
With the List button, the selected records are listed to screen.