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chalyse said:Also, there's been some input from others in the DL forum ... maybe we could ask for a simple rust-counter in the DB, that each garden-grower and hybridizer could 'report' an individual case (kind of like a running survey)?

And, since there had been success in the fuchsia community with using the same kind of survey-reporting data to develop mite-resistant info (used by hybridizers to strengthen, not eliminate, strains they are working with) ... maybe that kind of reporting would lend itself well to thrips in the database? just a thought, as there's seems to be so much that regular folks, as well as hybriders, can do collectively to identify useful lines for crossing in additional vigor into the future...

Here's what I suggested when the tomato special fields were being added and Dave's response:

krancmm said:could there be a section under the above specialized fields for Personal Experience rating, rather like a poll, also checkboxes, with a table/spreadsheet look?


Dave's Response: I love the idea and I think it's probably going to have to become my latest "Biggest item on my wishlist" but for now the database has zero support for something like that. Databox fields are programmed to be fixed to a single value. We can't currently have it where multiple users can select different values of the same item and have those differing values all appear. It's an "either or" kind of thing. Person "A" says something and if Person B wants to change it, it gets changed.

But having this feature would be an incredibly useful addition to the database. It's going to go on my wishlist.

This concept could be used in innumerable ways.