There are two databases maintained on the ChessieDB website: one for Dogs, and one for Contacts (breeders and owners). They both compliment each other -- when viewing a dog's information page, the breeder and owner contact information will be shown, and when viewing a contact's profile, the dogs owned and bred by that contact will listed bellow the contact information.

Before you can update your contact profile, you first have to find it. Use the Find -> Contact link on the left-side menu, enter your family name and press "Search Contacts". From the results page(s), you can choose to view each contact's profile, before using the appropriate update link. If you don't already have a contact profile, you'll have to Submit -> New Contact first. Existing contacts with similar names will be displayed for your review, in case you already have a contact profile. If none of the displayed contacts is you, or no matching contacts are shown, you may continue and submit a new contact profile.

After you update or submit a new contact, the information will be placed in a pending queue and will be imported into our database a few days later. The CONTACT STATS section in the left-side menu shows when the last contact was imported. The new or updated contact profile will be available on the website once those pending contacts have been imported.

Please note: When viewing a contact's profile page, the dogs owned and bred by that contact will listed bellow the contact information. You can affect this list by updating a dog's information (use the [Update Dog] link when viewing pedigrees, etc.). Each dog can be associated with up to three owners and breeders. The dog update page includes a lookup feature to find and associate contacts.

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Modifying the Owners and Breeders associated with a dog's record is now a lot easier. I just finished a Contact Lookup feature to locate contacts (by First Name, Last Name, or Kennel Name) and add them to a dog's record. When you're on an [Update Dog] page, you'll find a section titled Associated Owners and Breeders where you can enter Owner and Breeder Contact IDs. The Contact Lookup link (a popup window) in this section can be used to search for contacts, view their profile, list dogs owned and/or bred, and add their Contact IDs to the dog's update form. The Contact Lookup includes instructions in case the contact you're looking for is not in our database. You can also go straight to the New Contact Submission page and search for, update, or add a contact.

As part of the 3rd and final phase of the Contact Database functionality, I still have to code a proper Contact Search page. This will include such features as searching for all breeders, breeders by state, stud down owners, judges, etc.

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The ChessieDB Dog Info, Pedigree, Reverse Pedigree, Breeding, and part of the new contact Profile page, can all be embed into another web page, on a completely different website. The idea is to allow web site owners (kennels, breeders, and dog owners) to use our database information, and reduce the time they spend maintaining the same information on their website. The pages we provide for embedding have been simplified, stripped of their ChessieDB branding (menus, etc.), and provide links to other pages also designed for an embedded window frame.

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