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Post by Paul on Nov 21, 2005 20:31:12 GMT
We talked about this on the following thread: petsnails.proboards3.com/index.cgi?board=habitat&action=display&n=1&thread=4793&page=1I have been designing it and I have further questions. I was gonna have three select/drop-down boxes and a text box for the location. So you pick the genus, that updates the species box, you select the species and that updates the variant box. The problem is that for most of the time, people will be entering snails of a few genera. However, because there are people all over the world, there could be all sorts popping up and the genus list I have is getting longer and longer. So I'm wondering if there should be a family/sub-family box before genus. This is great for organisation but I'm wondering if it'll cause difficulties for people trying to find their snails in the lists. I could partially solve this with a word-stem search option. If I went the whole hog, right down the nomeclature the database itself could be useful as a list of species generally that can be expanded by moderators/members. While this is desirable I worry it will get in the way of people using it. Perhaps the way to solve it is to have a common list for common species, and if you have an obscure one you'll have to use a search tool to find it. What do you think?
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