Jim’s Development Blog

The Museum Archive software project has helped a lot of small organizations to manage their collections - more than 6000 downloads of the basic edition so far. A healthy percentage of those users have elected to upgrade to the premium edition. Thanks!

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I am releasing version 2.5 of the premium edition today. It has a new feature which might prove useful: Folders. Using Folders is optional, but it provides you with another way to link Objects together. You could always set up multiple Collections, and you could assign specialized Status codes, and of course you could develop [...]

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I’ve released a new version of the premium edition today. Changes include the ability to specify the status of Objects imported via CSV file and a bulk editor to allow you to make changes to many Objects at once for selected fields in the Object table. The installation file is available on the web site [...]

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One of the overlooked features of the premium edition of the software is contained in the print previewer for the Detailed Object Report. You can search for any text and optionally tag all pages containing the search value. Click this button:

and a window will open. Type in the text you’d like to find and select [...]

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The Museum Archive software project has a new version of the premium edition. Version 2.2 introduces a Nomenclature table to enable users to develop and use a controlled vocabulary while entering Objects in the database. I had hoped to distribute a complete controlled vocabulary as a ‘working sample’, but getting permission from the creator has [...]

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I changed the structure of the Documents table in the last release of the premium edition of the Museum Archive software, adding a few fields that had been suggested by a user. The software is designed to automatically notice the structure is different and change your existing table to match the new specification the first [...]

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A new version of the Museum Archive software premium edition is now available on the web site. Registered users have been notified by email. This new version (2.0) adds a more powerful QBE (Query by example) tool to the main archive browse window, it adds some new reports, and incorporates functions that used to reside [...]

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Version 2 of the Museum Archive software project’s premium edition contains a new Query By Example (QBE) tool on the main archive browse window. Click here to see a video that shows you how you can use it to help you locate Objects in the database. Unlike the query procedure in the previous version, this [...]

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I’m preparing a new release of the premium edition; it should be ready in the next two weeks. Quite a few changes and improvements - I’d like to thank everyone for their input and suggestions. Watch for the announcement in your inbox!

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I just learned that the Windows 7 internal messaging system can make it appear as though the Museum Archive software is ‘hung up’ when you press the Alt key all by itself. Musarch loses the focus. I’ll be addressing this programmatically in the next release, but for now, you can simply press Alt-Esc to regain [...]

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