Does anyone here use the Finch Breeder Database?

[Colt]

I just updated mine yesterday. I've been quite bad about it. I'll get on the ball for a few days but the headache of recording every detail, and the fact that the birds display in order of how I entered them in vs. lumped by species (unless I click the species name) drives me a little nuts sometimes.

[wilkifam]

If you NAME the birds with numbers in front of their names, they will display in that order.

[finchandlovebird]

Lori, thank goodness you got it worked out. I, too, use the Finch Breeder Database on almost a daily basis. When I've had a prob, there's someone you can e-mail.....probably in the HELP section.

Was there anything going on that those of us who use the database need to know so we can prevent problems???

[wilkifam]

I was typing a bird name when mine went belly up. Apparently Typed a / slash which the database does not like....... I was not even done typing.

[Smurf]

I'm glad your back up and running, it's such a useful app.

I've named all my birds with a prefix such as 'soc' for society followed by a number, this way the're all listed under my birds with the different species all listed together.

I also class all young birds as 'lost' instead of 'in-stock' so it's easy to separate breeding stock from young. Only my stock birds show up in signature because of this which i also prefer.

[MariusStegmann]

Yes, that would be a first class catastrophe for me@MiaCarter. There must be a way to backup the data.

[monotwine]

Far as I know the data is backed up on a server. I periodically export my birds (full list) to excel sheet. Nice simple backup.

Never had a days issue with database though.