You must specify a list of variables that you wish to hold/collect. For instance in the case of time-sheets, the date, number of hours, the clients, any notes and perhaps hourly rate. For each ‘variable’ you have to provide a shot-name, a long name or title, a type, etc. Your ‘id’ will be automatically included on each entry with your user-name

Data-Genie currently offers the following type of data

• Integer
• Real,
• Text
• notes,
• static drop-down list,
• dynamic drop down lists,
• Boolean (yes/no),
• single or multiple choice options,
• dates,
• special fields (labels, lock keys, record id)
• unique identifier- no duplicates
• some constraints

You can even provide personalised help text for a novice user to help them understand what any variable means and how to proceed

You can optionally provide admin information about how the data-entry screen should look, what background colour to use, where the data-base is to be held (local PC) or on the web, if password are required

Once that is completed Data-genie configures itself and it’s ready to run. That means you can use it for data-entry, searching, exporting and reporting as explained below