Ideas Genie
Software for Plants and Gardens

by Ideas for Gardens.com
User Guide - Applies to Ideas Genie Pro 6 and Bonsai Genie 6
Last updated: 7th December 2024

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Index

About screenshots

Introduction

Getting Started

Setting Up

Preferences

Database preferences

 

Plant Culture/Property
 classifications- GA603

Plants and Gardens-GA604

Garden Photos - GA605

Articles - GA607

Plant Care
Classifications GA611

My Garden - GA616

Pots & Containers - GA628

Specimens - GA629

Link Photos - GA630

Reviews - GA632

 

Web Projects - GA642

Tasks - GA647

GA100 screens

Backups

 

Create a New Database

Open another database

Restore

Pack files

Reindex Files

Change Code Page

Special - GA912

Where is everything?

FAQ

Glossary

Common Controls

Index by Program Name

Acknowledgements

About us

Product support

Sponsored Links

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Ideas Genie User Guide
The Plants and Gardens program - GA604
 

Toolbars
Toolbars provide access to the many functions of this program.
Toolbar GA100S70 (Plants)
When you click on a plant name, Toolbar GA100S70 appears.
See Screenshot GA100S70-1 for recommendations on how to position this toolbar so as not to obscure your plants listings.
Toolbar GA100S69 (Specimens)
Please read this short paragraph on Specimens in the Getting Started document
When you click on a plant name, the list expands to show you the specimens you have linked to that plant and/or an option to add a new specimen.
Then, If you click on a specimen line in the list, Toolbar GA100S69 appears.
See Screenshot GA100S69-1 for recommendations on how to position this toolbar so as not to obscure your plants listings.

Page Tabs in this screen
There are 6 tabs in this screen.
See Screenshot GA604S01-4

  1. Plants
  2. Gardens
    This is the default page displayed when you start this program
  3. Options. Click to read about the Options Tab
  4. Search
  5. Filter
  6. Sprees

Buttons in this screen

The Add a Plant button
You can choose a method for adding a plant by RIGHT clicking the ADD a plant button in screen GA604S01. See this screenshot
See the section Options for adding plants to read about the 3 methods for adding a plant.

When you LEFT click on this button you are taken to the Add a plant screen you last used i.e. the method you select persists when you left click (as normal) on the Add a Plant button.

The Plant Photos button
Screen Plant photos - GA604S15 appears when you click this button.
In this screen you can Add, Edit and display plant photos and photos of specimens.

 

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