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Comment by Kathy Ransom on March 6, 2012 at 9:05am

I really like the ability to search by picture!

Comment by Tony Hansen on February 25, 2012 at 3:22pm

Someone said below that the videos do not pause, but they do. Your browser should open a panel with a nice frame with controls to position the video where ever you want and pause it.

To answer another question: Yes, you will be able to find glazes under other names that use the same recipe, this will be done by fingerprinting the recipes to recognize duplicates. This is coming.

Also, the help system needs to evolve, it will always be behind recent changes made. I think, in general, if you need to consult the help too much we need to change the design to make it more evident how to do things.

Comment by Tim Placek on February 21, 2012 at 7:00pm

Is it intentional that any member can modify/delete anyone's recipes?  Is there a "user folder" that has some protection or just one pool of recipes?

Reply by George Lewter 2/21. As we imported almost 500 glazes as our opening portfolio, and they are not consistently named or documented we are initially leaving them editable by all our members. (except for the recipe ingredient lines and quantities). Hopefully the members will pitch in and work on the recipes to get them to a level of standardization, and then we will lock down the recipes, except that notes will be appendable by third parties and pictures with notes can be also added by third parties so the body of data about a glaze can grow.

For now, one list of glazes that all can add to.  

Comment by Sylvia Shirley on February 21, 2012 at 8:01am

Here's a suggestion.  It would be nice if there were a printable instruction sheet, like a PDF.  Step by step instructions.  It's hard to watch the video and remember everything.

Comment by Kathy Ransom on February 18, 2012 at 8:35am

I think a lot of glazes undergo a name change when a potter takes and uses them and I just wondered if there is any way to search a glaze and see if there are any glazes with identical ingredients and amounts entered under a different name.  I've inadvertantly done this myself and would be very interested in tracing a recipe back to its source.

Comment by Steven Hunter on February 17, 2012 at 5:44pm

It might be good to have a note someplace on the glaze, or a color change to the card, if the poster used the glaze. Posting other persons glazes you have not used does not give us any place go for questions. Perhaps a grouping,  glazes we have used ourselves and glazes not yet tried.

Response by George Lewter:  Any glaze recipe that hasn't been updated or used by one of our members doesn't have the C6G-#### designation in front of it.  Such glazes are either not tested or used by one of us, or we haven't yet gotten to adding our notes and pictures to make it "ours". When you start working on a glaze, use the button to give it a numeric code so we know it has become active. 

Always precede your added notes on someone else's glaze with your name and the date.

 

Comment by Sylvia Shirley on February 16, 2012 at 9:52am

I forgot to give it a title!  Duh!  It's there now and shows up as C6G-1008 Naragon White.  Not sure where that C6G-1008 came from.

Reply by George Lewter: The coding was added automatically when you intentionally or inadvertantly hit the button for it. It is just the next available number code for a cone 6 glaze.  We're asking members to add the numeric code when they work on a glaze or change anything about it. We can tell which ones are unchanged for the duration they have been the system.

Comment by Sylvia Shirley on February 16, 2012 at 9:43am

OK, so I went in and entered a recipe for Naragon White.  I uploaded a photo and everything.  I even created a new typecode OPQ for opaque. I know I saved it, but now I can't find it.  What did I do wrong?

Reply by George Lewter: Probably nothing since the new typecode is still listed.  Sometimes the typecode list is minimized and out of sight. You just need to expand it. That typecode seems reasonable so we can leave it. In the future we should probably discuss new typecodes before adding them as they could easily get out of hand.

Comment by Sylvia Shirley on February 16, 2012 at 8:52am

I found the instructions in the introduction video.  I sure wish I could pause the video so I could take some notes, but it doesn't seem to let me pause, so I'll just have to watch it several times.  I'm a little slow, so bear with me.

Reply by George Lewter: You are doing great. Have no fear.  You might want to use the written help system with specific questions rather than going through the videos multiple times.

Comment by Sylvia Shirley on February 16, 2012 at 8:33am

Printing works great on Google Chrome. Normally my recipes add up to 100 and then the colorants are additions to that.  In the Insight recipes those colorants worked are worked into the 100%.  So that's different than I'm used to.  Can I enter a recipe directly instead of uploading it?  I thought I saw that somewhere but can't remember.  Maybe I need to re-watch a video to find out how.  This is fun.

Reply by George Lewter: When you add an ingredient there is an "Add" checkbox to the right.  If you check it that ingredient will get listed as an additive rather than part of the base ingredients. So you can have your base equal 100 plus percentages of additives.

Yes, you can manually enter a new recipe. You use the "Add" button at the bottom of the glaze list. A new blank recipe form will appear.  Click edit to put it in edit mode.  Indicate how many ingredient lines you need and you're off.

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