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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User Guide
Common Contols
 

Index to Common Controls
About Controls
Using Right Click to expose shortcuts
User Guide links
Help Balloons and the Show Help Balloons Checkbox
Date Pickers
The Retry button
The More button (in relation to Data Location Records)
Show Short Names and Show FULL paths


About Controls

In this User Guide we refer to controls as the objects you see on Ideas Genie screens:
Buttons, Pop-ups, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, List Boxes, Text fields, Memo fields etc.
Ideas Genie has many unique features based on these controls, explained in this section.

 

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