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"I received our FlockFiler software on Saturday and love it! I've been looking around for something that works for our small hobby farm and this fits the bill. It's wonderful to see their pedigrees fall into place."
Liz Swanson, Short and Sweet Sheep Farm,
South Windsor, CT

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FlockFiler Lite v1.7: Some Screen Images

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Calculations Form. These tools are available to assist in your sheep management. You can also see a quick breakdown of the records you are browsing by sex, age, and breeding status.

• View Image: Home Screen. This is the first screen displayed when you start up FlockFiler Lite.
• View Image: Basic Form. Most of the sheep's information is entered on this screen. Gray items are calculated automatically from the white entries. For example, the Age is calculated automatically from current date and the Birthdate.
• View Image: Advanced Form – Data Entry. Less frequently needed information is entered on this form along with convenient access to info that is usually entered via other guided-interface screens.
• View Image: Advanced Form – Guided Actions. This screen provides an assortment of buttons to guide data entry for common activities is collected on this screen. Some of these buttons also appear elsewhere in the appropriate context on other screens.
• View Image: Advanced Form – Data Management. This screen provides assortment of buttons providing tools to work with your data as a whole. Some of these buttons also appear elsewhere in the appropriate context on other screens.
• View Image: Advanced Form – Utilities. This screen provides assortment of rarely needed buttons for maintenance of your data. These tools are provided for advanced users.
• View Image: Measuring Form – General. Enter your evaluation scores and genetic measurements here. Two custom numeric fields are provided for you to label and record information that doesn't have a home elsewhere.
• View Image: Measuring Form – Wool. Enter all of your fleece evaluations and measurements here.
• View Image: Measuring Form – Weight. The 60-, 90-, and 120-day weights are automatically estimated from your weight measurements. The 60-day adjusted weight automatically takes into account the lamb's sex, how the lamb was born and raised, and the dam's age.
• View Image: List – Weaning Weight. Enter the weaning weight measurements for many sheep at once in this list. Print out this list as a worksheet. Fill in the values on the sheet as you measure them. Then enter the measurements back onto the screen. The "Apply Same Date" button lets you automatically fill in the same weaning date on every record.
• View Image: Genealogy Form. Use the buttons to navigate easily to any sheep displayed. Then use the "Previous Record" feature to navigate back easily. This form is also searchable so you can, for example, find all sheep with Zane as the grandsire.
• View Image: Genealogy Form – More Info. This is a modified form of the normal Genealogy screen with a user-selectable piece of information displayed under each entry in the pedigree chart. In this example screen image, the "Breed Description" is selected for display.
• View Image: Siblings and Offspring Form. At a glance you can see all of the direct offspring of a ram or ewe. Quickly record new lambs with the "New Offspring" button.
• View Image: Log Entries Form. Scroll among the history of notes for the sheep. You can create a note for a specific sheep or place notes into the records of many sheep at the same time. The number of notes is unlimited. The most recent notes are shown first. And, like everything else, these notes are fully searchable.
• View Image: Log Entries Form – Filtered. This is the same as the regular log entries form except that you get to limit the display to only ones in a particular category. This makes it easy to see at-a-glance the latest vaccination on a sheep for example without having to look past non-vaccination entries.
• View Image: Form for detailing your Log Entry.
• View Image: Customize Form – Behavior. Specify FlockFiler Lite's default data entry behavior here.
• View Image: Customize Form – Appearance. FlockFiler Lite has six custom fields that you get to label yourself and use to store data that is useful to you but doesn't have a home elsewhere.
• View Image: Customize Form – Available Breeds. Your flock can be comprised of up to ten distinct breeds. Specify your breeds here before you enter records needing those breeds.
• View Image: Calculations Form. These tools are available to assist in your sheep management. You can also see a quick breakdown of the records you are browsing by sex, age, and breeding status.
• View Image: Reports Screen – Select Sheep. Find common lists of sheep or use the powerful Find feature to search for records matching exactly what you need.
• View Image: Reports Screen – Choose List Format. Select what columns of information to display when you view a list of your sheep. Your choice here will reprogram the List button at the top of the screen to use your selected list format.
• View Image: Reports Screen – Printable Reports. A collection of reports are available to easily print some or all of your sheep records.
• View Image: List screen. Your search results are displayed in this default list. Quickly navigate to any sheep on this list using the green magnifying glass button. Any of the lists available on the Reports – Choose List Format screen can be used instead of this list format.
• View Image: Import Field Mapping Dialog example when importing records. The powerful import function of FlockFiler Lite lets you automatically read in records in from a spreadsheet or other file and place that information into any data entry field. This makes quick and easy work of reading in all of your existing electronic sheep records when you are getting started with FlockFiler Lite.
• View Image: Specify the Fields and the Field Order for the Export Dialog. The powerful export function of FlockFiler Lite lets you save any or all of FlockFiler Lite's fields to a file. Everything you type into FlockFiler Lite can be exported. This allows you to make graphs and charts using a spreadsheet. You might create a custom report by merging records into a form letter in a word processor.
• View Image: Replace dialog. The powerful "Replace..." feature lets you change information in many records at once.
• View Image: The Specify Calculation dialog when you choose "Replace with calculated result" on the Replace dialog. You can even have the contents of the field altered according to the logic of a calculation that you specify. Advanced users will find all the power they need in FlockFiler Lite.