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Hi,
does someone know how to enter coordinates into localities?
I'm having a trouble with it.

It's supposed to be in degrees, minutes and seconds ...

Hi,
We reached our 99999 catalog number in the Fish Collection and the software seems to not accept the 100000. Is there a limit of only 99999 record ...

Is there a way to dump all of the fields in specify into a text file? ...

Hi Folks,
Does anybody know some collections that publish their information in the internet as http://www.nhm.ku.edu/fishes/ or http://webdbs.nhm.ku. ...

Hello Folks,

Does anybody use Specify to manage a microbiology collection? Fungus, bacteria…
I am trying to implement Specify to handle all that ...

Hi all,
Does anyone run Specify in Windows Vista Business edition? Wich SQL Server are you using? (I tried SQL Server 2000 without success).

Best ...

Dear Folks

I would like to know how to get and import some Taxonomy Authority Files from any different place different to Specify forum, like ITIS. ...

We have just installed Specify 5.2.3 to 11 workstations and all seem to be working properly. Quick, easy, painless.

Enjoy!

Paul VS ...

The list of enhancements for version 5.2 states that "Sites can now place Microsoft Access files containing query and text file Darwin Core mappings i ...

Hi there,

We have very large spreadsheets containing data at specimen level and want to start storing the data in a proper database. As spreadsheet ...

We run SQL Server 2000 on a dedicated SQL database server that is essentially brand new.
While most of the time, we are running pretty smoothly, ther ...

Hi Folks -

No issues with the install of the new Specify 5.2.1. We have installed it on about 15 workstations (win 2k and win xp) without any probl ...

Hi Folks -

We have been running Specify 5.2 for about 3 weeks now on 10 workstations. We are very impressed with this upgrade. From our perspective ...

The documentation says that if you are using Windows 2003 you should use Sun Application Server to avoid crashing. After further testing, it has been ...

I think that the MemoryError problem when downloading files has been fixed, at least for now. Please let me know if you encounter the error again. W ...

Please point me to the instructions for redoing the web interface in 5.2 after upgrading. Can't seem to find the web setup instructions in the new hel ...

Hi Folks -

Just thought I would post our success on installing Specify 5.2. Yesterday I installed the new version on 10 workstations (win2k & winxp ...

Hi there!
I am trying to use Specify as a server in a "computer A", and another in a workstation ("computer B" ) acting as a client.
I followed the ...