| First Name |
Enter the first name of the performer.
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| Last Name |
Enter the last name of the performer. When the window is in read mode,
the last name behaves as a lookup field.
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| Skill |
Use the popup menu to the right of the field
to select a skill for the person. This skill is not used in any reports and
has no bearing on the activities of the person. This field is used to qualify
duplicate names. The use of this field in no way restricts the usage of the name
in the database. For instance, there is a pianist named Billy Taylor and a bass player
named Billy Taylor. To distinguish these two duplicate names, p and b (the instrument
abbreviations for piano and bass) would be entered in the skill field for these names.
On the Add Performers window, the piano designation for Billy Tayor would not prevent him
from being entered as organ, celeste, leader, or anything else on a particular performance.
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| VIAF |
Used to store the Virtual International Authority File id for the artist. Find out more at VIAF.org.
|
 |
Use this button to navigate to the previous
name in the personnel table.
|
 |
Use this button to navigate to the next
name in the personnel table.
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| New Person |
Use this button to put the window into a mode that will allow
adding a new name. When this button is pressed, all fields will
be blanked, and the Edit and Delete buttons will be changed to
Save and Cancel respectively. Once the fields are entered,
pressing the Save button will commit the new name to the
database. Pressing Cancel will revert the window back to the
state it had before New was pressed. No changes will be
saved. |
| Edit Person |
Use this button to put the window into a mode that will allow
modifying a name. When this button is pressed the Edit and
Delete buttons will be changed to Save and Cancel respectively.
Once the fields are modified, pressing the Save button will
commit the changes to the database. Pressing Cancel will revert
the window back to the state it had before Edit was pressed. No
changes will be saved.
Duplicate names can be entered for the Personnel screen but
they must be qualified with the Skill field.
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| Delete Person |
Pressing this button will remove the name from the database. This action is
unrecoverable. |
