There are a number of resources available which can provide
help and guidance on a range of specialised or more general topics
within Recorder 6. As well as support and advice available from the
approved Recorder experts, the Recorder Wiki and the NBN Forum
are useful reference sources for potential issues or general
advice. For written assistance you can use the Help within
Recorder or make use of the growing library of guides and tutorials
which cover a range of subjects at different user levels. There is
also technical documentation available covering topics such as
the data model and additional documents that may be of
interest eg National surveys.
NBN Forum
The Recorder section of the NBN Forum is a valuable
focal point for the recording community for both announcements
(eg software or dictionary version releases) and troubleshooting.
It is an active arena for Recorder users with a range of
technical skills to assist one another with problem
solving, free of charge. There are links to other related
projects as well as the Recorder Wiki and a search facility. If you
can't find what you're looking for on the forum you
can
type the following text into an internet search
engine and then the words you are searching for:
site:forums.nbn.org.uk. This cleverly restricts
the search to the NBN forum and often yields better results than
searching within the forum itself. Another method for
searching the forum is this
customised Google search provided by Charles
Roper.
Recorder Wiki
The Recorder
Wiki is a set of webpages, accessed through a link on the NBN
Forum, where the user community are invited to get involved in
creating posts to assist other users in completing a range of
tasks related to Recorder. Existing posts can be edited and added
to and can provide a very useful source of information for all
Recorder users. Visitors can access and view Wiki entries but to be
able to edit the Wiki you will need to register as a Forum
user.
Recorder Experts
There are currently five JNCC approved Recorder experts: Sally Rankin, Mike Weideli,
ExeGesIS, Dorset Software and Richard Weddle. As well
as supplying Recorder 6 they can
provide support, training and advice as well as additional
services such as data transfer, customised installations and
the development of larger projects to fit a range of budgets.
Recorder Help
The .chm Recorder Help files are available within Recorder
and can be accessed from the main menu bar by clicking on Help
and then choosing Help again. They are regularly updated and
provide, on the opening page, a very useful quick
overview section outlining the main changes for each version
of Recorder with links to the key information.
Documentation - Tutorials and Guides
There is an growing library of written guides and tutorials covering a range of aspects
of Recorder functionality. These are aimed at different user levels
from introductory to more advanced and include the general User
Guide, building rucksacks outside Recorder, Taxon name matching in
the species dictionary, adding designations outside Recorder
and linking Recorder to GI systems.
Technical Documentation
Recorder benefits from an open and accessible data model and an
extensible platform. This enables specialist users to
develop addins (Microsoft COM objects written in Visual Basic,
Delphi, C++ etc.) for Recorder to provide additional functionality
alongside the main Recorder application. A range of technical
documentation is available including the data model
itself.
Additional Documents
This section includes additional documents of interest such
as the National surveys about Recorder use
amongst local record centres and national recording
schemes.
Known issues and errors
There are a few known
issues
and error messages that users have encountered whilst using
Recorder and this section attempts to document these to
provide an additional resource for the user to find
information about these and the solutions that were
found.
Tools
Two
tools are
now available for use in Recorder 6. These are the OS map tile
installer (NBN Browser Software) and the tool that recreates or
mends the linked Access database nbndata.mdb.
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