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Crop Profiler User's Guide: Main Menu Screen |
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When you first launch the Crop Profiler database, the Main Menu screen is mostly blank.
If this is your first time launching Crop Profiler, click the 
button, because you have not yet entered any crop profile information. A new crop profile record will be started and you will be taken
to the Profile Info screen.
If you have entered profile information previously, you can still choose to enter a new profile, or
alternatively, click on the 
button. This action enables the buttons at the bottom of the Main
Menu screen,
as well as revealing a set of drop-down boxes for state and commodity.
To navigate to an existing profile, use the drop-down lists to choose a state and commodity. Click on the arrow beside the box, or the box itself. A list will drop down, containing values for the profiles that have already been entered into the database.
Select the state and commodity for the profile you want to work with. Click the 
button to be taken to the Profile Info screen
for the profile you selected (see the Data Entry section).
If you choose not to go directly to the Profile Info screen, you may click the 
button to reveal a drop-down list of pests that are associated with the commodity:
Once you've selected a pest, if you click the button you will be taken directly to the Pest Info 1
screen for that pest (see the Data Entry section).
If you choose not to go to the Pest Info 1 screen, you may click the second button to reveal another drop-down menu, this time listing the chemical controls associated with the
pest chosen previously:
Clicking the button this time will take you directly to the Chem Info 1 screen for the selected active ingredient.
The other three buttons at the bottom of the main menu perform specific tasks. Clicking the 
button will print all the different parts of the currently selected crop profile (throughout this
document, the currently selected crop profile means the one selected in the Main Menu screen). You will have
a chance to cancel printing if you hit the button inadvertently.
Clicking the 
button exports the data of the current selected profile in Rich Text
Format, which is a format that can be opened and edited by most word processors. The RTF file is
called "Profile.rtf" and is saved inside the Crop Profiler folder when you click the RTF button. You
should open this file in your word processor and save it under another name, because the "Profile.rtf" file
is overwritten each time you click on the button.
Clicking the 
button returns the Main Menu screen to the state it's in when you first
launch Crop Profiler.
