Gentle Spiders,
In between cooking and baking, I've been taking some 'puter lessons
from my son -- it's now our Christmas tradition, that my husband helps
pay for his ticket from the West Coast, I cook and bake all his
childhood favourites and he "pays us" both back with his 'puter
expertise.
This time around, I asked him to teach me how to use the database
"thingie" which came with my puter; I've been wanting to catalogue my
lace books for ages and fiilling index cards by hand is not really the
best way to go.
So, now, I know how to create fields which I want to appear in the book
description, I need to build a "template", which would apply to all the
books. Some of the fields, like author, title, publisher, date, etc are
no problem. The problems come with categories more specific to lace.
What do I name a field which tells me whether it's Bobbin, Needle,
Tatted (Shuttle), etc lace? I suppose I could create two catalogues --
one for BL, where I have the most of books, and one for the "other".
But I would prefer to have a single catalogue for all lacwes.
What do I name a field which tells me that, within BL, it's Point
Ground, or Flanders, or Freehand? Is that "technique"? And what about a
field name which distinguishes a manual from a history book, from a
collection of patterns, from a collection of photograps?
To be sure, all of that info can be fed into the "comments" or "notes"
field, but then I won't be able to search/sort by those, should I want
to make a short list of, say, all the BL, photos of Point Ground laces.
Any and all suggestions welcome.
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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