Questions about Insight-Live.com

Hi everyone. I put some Questions about how to use parts of Insight-Live on the comment wall, so I will not add them here. I thought it might be nice to have a spot where we could just write out our questions when they arise. That way George and Tony will have a heads up on what some of us are wanting to know. That would help them to plan the next web-cast.   If someone else knows the answer, they could post it and that would take some of the burden off of George and Tony. I am sure the same questions are repeated often.  Solutions that are known by others, could be shared with newcomers. I hope this is all right.

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Permalink Reply by Donna Kat on December 16, 2012 at 3:21am

It would be nice to have.

Permalink Reply by Donna Kat on December 17, 2012 at 2:25pm

I have cleaned up the data base I added so that the Code number is now C6G rather than ^6 Glaze.  I will be going through the glazes to check for notes that may be needed.  The upload claimed that I had 5 duplications but I have not a clue how to find these and I can see no way to sort the glazes in any fashion.  If anyone knows about either of these issues, please let me know (and the 2000 is now down to less than 200 so that disaster is taken care of as well).

Permalink Reply by George Lewter on December 26, 2012 at 7:44pm

Thanks again for your contributions to the database and your subsequent work!

For normal searching, type in a search word in the search text box. The default order is to present matching glazes with the most recently modified first.

Click on the advanced search link, and you will see options for sorting and for filtering your searches using a number of different parameters.

Permalink Reply by Tony Hansen on January 8, 2013 at 7:53am

Yes, you can add any number of URLs to a recipe, so pointing it at another webpage is not a problem.

Permalink Reply by Tony Hansen on January 8, 2013 at 8:03am

1. Desktop Insight installs on a desktop PC or laptop and is about understanding the chemistry of glazes to fix, formulate or adjust them. It has an SQL database, but it is single user for PCs (windows, mac, linux). Insight-Live.com is about data, alot of data (although it does show the chemistry). It can handle alot more details about recipes, it is multi-user, you can user it from any internet connected device with a browser. We are building ways for them to exchange data (right now Insight-Live can import recipe databases and you can copy and paste XML representations of recipes in either direction).

2. Finding similar glazes is coming to Insight-Live (as well as finding similar materials). Since it is an industrial strength SQL system and the data structures are very hierarchical, the data analysis potential is fantastic (my head is spinning with what we are going to be able to do with this!). There will be alot of data to search, so the possibilities will be staggering.

Permalink Reply by Tony Hansen on January 8, 2013 at 8:09am

5X20 is G1214M and it is in reference batch -2. But it seems to be calculating correctly for me.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Hansen on January 8, 2013 at 8:10am

I thought the log file generated during the import shows the duplicates. You did not see them there?

Permalink Reply by Donna Kat on January 8, 2013 at 8:15am

Yes!  Thank you Tony, it had not occured to me to look at the log.  Now I just have to remember how to do the other odds and ends. 

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