Re: Dosing Schedule Creator - v2 - should be much more user-friendly now!
That sounds like a good idea, and would actually be fairly easy to put together. I could set up an auto-dry-vs-solution formula that makes any dry dosage under 1/8t to automatically be set up as a solution. And then have the actual dosing schedule automatically filled out with specs.
If I added in a wpg and non-co2 spec, then I could even allow for less dosage than EI recommends.
I think yall are right in that new people don't want to fill anything out. Or at least just the basics and have everything else spelled out for them.
How should it be decided what dosing products will be used though? A box similar to what is there now, asking for the person to choose the product for each compound (i.e. KNO3 for Nitrate)? Maybe a intro-box recommending the person to look at their LFS or Greg Watsons site for products that are deemed necessary, and then to put a check mark next to the product they found?
I just think that even an easy-to-use schedule creator would have to be complex to some extent, merely because people aren't even educated on what products are available. Which I think is what Tom was getting at above in that their should only be commercially avaialble products listed (i.e. Seachem products) for beginners since they easily find these at their LFS.
Thanks for the pointers PMC. I will begin on a beginners edition soon.
In the mean time, others make sure the current one has no errors in it. I ran a 10g example and found a couple. The errors are obvious though, so I would hope no one would rely on them if seen

i.e. 1500ppm NO3 showed up as being dosed with a small solution... I would hope that wouldn't be possible... fixed it, but more may be around with the different options.