Organizer Overview
The DMB Organizer provides an easy way to view the items in your
databases and how they are related. For example, you can easily
see:
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which team a player currently belongs to
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which park each team is assigned to
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when each team played its last game (which is especially helpful
when league commissioners are importing stats from multiple
managers in a distributed league)
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what's in a database after switching active databases or
installing a new season disk
And while many people enjoy Diamond Mind Baseball with the
players and teams that ship with the software or that you may
purchase separately, you may also want to create your own leagues,
teams, and players. You can also do this using the DMB
Organizer.
The Organizer Window
To access the features of the DMB Organizer, choose the
Organizer from the View menu. The following
window appears:
The row of tabs across the bottom allows you
to switch easily from one category of items to another. When you
click on a tab, the main body of the window shows a list of all
items of that type.
Each list shows the name and several useful
attributes of each item, including the ID that uniquely identifies
the item in the database. In most cases, you can ignore the IDs,
since they are created and managed by DMB for its internal use. In
a few cases, such as player creation and exporting schedules to an
external text file, it's helpful to know the IDs, so we make them
available here.
Across the top is a row of buttons that, when
clicked, allow you to create, copy, modify, delete, import, or view
one or more items in the list. If a button is deactivated (grayed
out), it means that command is not applicable to items of the type
in the currently active tab.
To execute some commands (modify or delete,
for instance), you must first select one or more items from the
list so DMB knows which item(s) you want the command to act on. To
select a single item, click once with the left mouse button. To
select multiple items (usually appropriate only when you want to
delete several things at once), use the techniques described in the
Selecting Multiple Items in
a Listtopic.
You can also invoke commands by
right-clicking on the list of items. This causes a popup menu to
display with the commands that are appropriate for the currently
active tab.
WARNING! If you wish to modify or
delete an item using the popup menu technique, you must first
left-click to select the item, then right-click to display the
popup menu. If you wish to delete one or more items, keep in mind
that the item(s) to be deleted are the ones that are highlighted.
If, for example, you select the second item in the list, then
right-click on the fourth item and choose Delete, it's the second
item that is deleted. Right-clicking on an item to display a popup
menu DOES NOT select that item for deletion.
If you double-click on an item, DMB
immediately carries out a default command. For most items, the
default command is Modify, so the appropriate modification window
appears immediately. Double-clicking on a player displays his
Profile (because player modification is something that most users
rarely or never do).
Related topics:
Teams
Parks
Players
Leagues
Organizations
Eras
Schedules
Drafts
Notes
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