Jim’s Development Blog

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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The Museum Archive Import/Export utility now lets you generate a complete web site from your database with a few mouse clicks. You then have the chance to customize the look and feel of the pages it produced. Here’s a little more detail on the index.htm and the musarch_export.css files used by the import/export utility:
In your [...]

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Make a web site from your Musarch data with just a few mouse clicks. Change the look and feel of the pages by substituting images and changing the style sheet. A quick and easy way to get your collection of Objects online - the new version of the Museum Archive software project’s Import/Export utility (a [...]

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I am releasing another version of the premium edition of the Museum Archive software project. Version 1.8 contains a number of fixes/additions:

The name of the Object is now a part of the form window’s caption;
The accession number field is now easily visible in the browse list box;
The Location Reference field is now included on the [...]

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I’m releasing a new version of the Museum Archive software import /export utility. Before using the utility, please back-up your data! The utility now has the ability to import CSV files (comma separated value, also known as comma delimited) – the type of file you can create using spreadsheet software. There is a PDF document [...]

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The Museum Archive software project is still going strong. 4,584 downloads so far..
I am currently working on two additions to the software: a way to import Objects from a spreadsheet (actually, from a comma delimited file), and a true client/server version that you can run remotely. Pretty exciting stuff; I’ll have more details available soon.

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The premium edition of the Museum Archive software project has an effective way for you to find anything in your collection - by using the Print Preview for the Detailed Object report. Just print everything (no query required), and when the print preview opens up, you can tell it to tag pages containing the search [...]

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