viewing picture thumbnails while submitting photos via DDDI

QUESTION "Hi Norm,Thank you for answering our question, they were very helpful. I forgot to ask you one more....as we enter a sample and attach a picture, we are unable to preview our picture. We thought it might be our computer settings but several of us have tried on various computers and are unable to view the photo. Thank you for your help,"

ANSWER: Hi Kris, the secret is to choose “thumbnails” in the choose file window as you browse for the picture. See the attached "screen shot" picture for guidance and let me know if this works on your computers…

Norm

Viewing host names and submitting samples into database

Hello Norm, Who knew diagnostics could be this much fun.?We are really having a fun time with DDDI—and the turnaround time for responses to samples that we can’t diagnose is really amazing! We have a few questions for you.....

The first question is when we log into our account and click on ‘samples submitted by San Juan County’ it lists samples by a sample number. Is there are way we can change this to include a sample number as well as the name if the plant such as "956 Beet plant problem diagnosis."

Our second question is how do we correctly upload samples into the system that WE have diagnosed. We submitted a sample and chose the option ‘NO’ (do not send to be evaluated) and that particular sample is listed separately waiting for review. Thanks for your help,Kris

ANSWERS:
Question 1- veiwing host names of recently submitted samples
Unfortunately there is no way to accomplish this right now, you are limited to either doing a free text search and putting the host in you want or building your own report to summarize the information. This is something we defiantly need to fix and will be something I request this year that the programmers in Georgia fix. Maybe it is something they can do for in the short term I’ll check. Preferably we just change how the samples are displayed and show the sample number, date submitted, date collected, type of problem, host, and diagnosis (if available). Then one could have the data sorted by sample number, collection date, host, and diagnosis (this space will say undiagnosed until it has been diagnosed). If you will attend the statewide conference call on Thursday please bring these issues up.

Question 2: Submitting samples into statwide database
You need to check “yes” to the question “has the sample been evaluated” this question is towards the bottom of the main sample for- by checking this you will be sent to directly to the evaluation console when you press submit. Make sure to choose digital if you plan to upload a picture and just physical if you don’t want to upload a picture when using this feature.

Taking Clearer Photos

I have noticed some of your pictures are a bit out of focus. I recommend two things when using the SONY Cybershot to take non-microscopic photos to aid with distance diagnostics:

1)Make sure the shaky hand stabilizer is pressed (directly to left of power button)

2)Make sure “macro” is enabled (Press “flower” icon button to right of view finder)


Keep up the good work!