Setting
up records of my district and
property in TPRS
Why do I need to set up a district record?
The hierarchical nature of TPRS offers many advantages. It is
very efficient, for instance to record information about your property
like climate, and then if this information is needed for any stand
within the property, it can be obtained from the stand's "parent"
property in the hierarchy. The alternative would be to record
climate information with each stand record, which would be very
inefficient for storage and would also mean that if you wanted to
change anything about the climate records, then you'd have to change it
on every copy of the climate records.
The downside of a hierarchical record scheme is that you must establish
records for the parent elements before you record information about
elements lower in the hierarchy.
Setting
up a district record
Before you begin, type a name for your record system in the text field
on the right-hand panel (where it currently says, "Your Record System").
There are two ways to start a record of a district. You can
either right click over the name of your record system in the left hand
panel to bring up a menu, or you can use the menu in the right hand
panel. Choose "Select a district", from the menu. Choose
the
name of your district and click "ok". Note that if you had
properties in more than one district, then you could select more than
one district in the same set of records.
Setting up a property record
In all cases where you wish to create a new kind of record element in
the hierarchy, you have the option of using the menu in the right hand
panel that is outlined in a rectangle, or right clicking over the
parent element in the left hand
panel. From now on, we'll simply say "the element menu" to refer
to one of these two menus.
From the element menu. select either "record a farm" or "record a
forest". Both of these options enable you to begin records for a
property. The difference between them will be the terminology
used for elements, for instance a "paddock" in a farm is equivalent to
a
"compartment" in a forest.
When you have created your property, you must at least give it an area
in hectares in the text box provided. Other records like property
name, latitude or longitude are optional, but a property with no area
cannot contain any paddocks or stands.
Your record system will now look like this:
Fill out any field you wish to in the right hand section.
You are now ready to add paddocks/compartments and stands.
Adding paddock and stand records