Use the Personnel window to enter, edit, or delete personnel. Access this window via the Views—>Personnel menu.
Fields:
| First Name | Enter the first name of the performer. |
| Last Name | Enter the last name of the performer. When the window is in read mode, the last name behaves as a lookup field. |
| 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 Bill Evans and a tenor sax player named Bill Evans. To distinguish these two duplicate names, p and ts (the instrument abbreviations for piano and tenor sax) would be entered in the skill field for these names. When adding performers on the tracks panel of the Albums window, the piano designation for Bill Evans would not prevent him from being entered as organ, celeste, leader, or anything else on a particular performance. |
| Person Notes | This field will store notes regarding this entry. You may want to document where or how you found information about the data. This field will never appear on reports designated for display on a website. |
Buttons:
| 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. |
| Delete Person | Pressing this button will remove the name from the database. This action is unrecoverable. |