Hi Jill
I don't see a way to get an image from the Plant Database into a Swap List, other than saving the database photo to your hard disk (Copy Image, Paste), browsing to it, and then importing it backwards into the ATP swap list. But I think that would use more storage on the server, since ATP would have to hold two copies of any such image.
For the future, maybe
@Dave would modify a swap feature.
(1) You can already import to your swap list
from your Plant List, using the "green recycle" icon. Maybe Dave would add a control for "and carry this photo along with you".
(2) Or, more directly in response to your question, maybe he would allow the Swap List to
pull an image
from the Plant Database.
(3) Or provide a field we could edit, in the swap list, for pasting in a link to an ATP image from the Plant Database. That seems like the least work and least complexity.
(4) I thought there was an "Add to Swap List" button in the plant database, but I'm not seeing it right now. If there were such a button, that might benefit from a control to choose an image to carry along into your Swap List.
I'm guessing he's busy with the NGA now.
I think Dave's original idea was that people would take a picture of
each seed packet, save it to disk, then find it again from the Seed Swap tool, and import that picture of a seed packet so people could see what they would be getting. Not an image of the plant or the fruit, an image of the seed packet being traded.
(I'm not using that field for that purpose. It doubles or triples the work of adding an entry to the Swap List, and I don't think it's very useful. But a photo of a bloom or plant would seem useful to me.)
For me, the challenge is at home: to
label each pkt that I split
with the size (1/16th tsp, 1/2 tsp, "20-30 seeds", "~150 mg", etc. Right now I measure them accurately, then lose the info, then have to guess when I list something for trading. Or laboriously re-measure the amount in the pkt.
