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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Take your time. Just hang ‘em and get back to me ;-)<BR>
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Steve<BR>
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(Registered Voter for 35 years and never been called for jury duty!!)<BR>
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On 6/18/09 9:00 AM, "Paul Rodman" <<a href="paul@ilanga.com">paul@ilanga.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I am going to reply to this, as soon as my jury duty is over. Please be patient.<BR>
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Paul R.<BR>
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On Jun 17, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Steve Barkes wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> Ok, I guess I’m confused. I’m struggling to try and enter multiple observations for a session that I had back in December of last year.<BR>
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If I right-click on an object from the observation tab, the Make Observation option is always greyed out. It works from the Objects tab.<BR>
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If I create an observation from the Observation menu, or by clicking + in Observations list, I have no way to select what session to put the observation in. I can only select the “Currently Open Session” which makes no sense in that It always has the current date/time. If the session is currently open, I should be able to close it, or change to an existing session. The other options are create a “New Session” which I don’t want to do, and the “Recent Sessions” is always blank and greyed out. What about a All Sessions in addition to Recent Sessions?<BR>
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It appears the only way to move an observation into a particular session is to edit the date and time of the observation. Then I get an option to add it to an older session. But this is way too cumbersome, especially if I’m adding a dozen observations.<BR>
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Shouldn’t there be a way to Set the current session, possibly to a session date/time in the past, and then have all new observations go into that session until I change it, or create a new one? Shouldn’t I be able to see a list of all my sessions? And shouldn’t it be clear looking at the interface that the correct session has been selected? How do I see a list of all objects associated with a particular session?<BR>
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Perhaps a description of the intended workflow for entering observations after the fact would help.<BR>
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Steve <BR>
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