Help File for the Bonsai School of Menorca's Bonsai Manager program.

This is a program write in Microsoft Access, so you must need Microsoft Access 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007.

To download the program, you must be registered

You can register here


enter your details in this order:

• Name
• User name
• e-mail
• your password
• password again
• and the anti-spam code
• Accept

Then you will receive a confirmation email, just open the link to confirm, and the register process will be finish.

Then you can download the programs.

This is the English version, if you find any mistakes, please, let us know thought the English Forum

If you have installed Access 2003 or 2007, you need to modify the security parameters to allow the program run.

In Access 2003

You need to modify the security to "Low" to permit the execution of the code. If you don't know how to do it, you can download this file and follow the instructions. If you have problems to configure the security options, feel free to contact with us for help.

In Access 2007

You need to permit the execution of macros. More instructions here .

The program is free, but not "open", so all the rights belong to the Bonsai School of Menorca, and is distributed with the code protected. When you download the program, you accept the program user license.

If you want to integrate your old database in this one, or modify by yourself, please contact with us. Any improvement can benefit to all of us.

Fig 1

The principal screen is the Control Panel, from where you can Access to all the sections.

Fig 2

From the Bonsai Manger Control Panel, we Access to the bonsai details form.

This form has four tabs, Bonsai, History, General Works, and Phytosanitary.

In "Bonsai" we can introduce the basic aspects of the tree, species, size, etc. Also, we can insert photographs. It is better to limit the size of the photographs to 200 x 150 pixels (about 20kb) to make the program run faster. This is not a program to store photographs; we recommend opening a folder for each tree, and another one just for the miniatures used for the program.

Fig 3

In the "Full" versión, we find a button with the label "Evaluate Tree"

This button opens a form where we find a reduced version of the program "Bonsai Contest", and it will help us to evaluate our trees.

Fig 4

In "General Works" you can insert the normal works, as repotting, wiring, and pendent works.

Figura 5

In "Phytosanitary" you can insert the pests and the treatments. The pests and the treatments have to be inserted first at the right list from the control panel.

In the "Fertilizer" section, you can insert details from the fertilizers, is case you are doing this tree by tree (if you use a fertilizer for all the trees, you can insert the details from the form "Common treatments" that you can access from the control panel.

Fig 6

The "History" gives us an historic correlation of events for each tree. It's like a outline of the biography of the tree, where we can insert any exhibition, remodelations, etc.

Fig 7

From the Control Panel you have Access to the form "species group", here you will find the most common groups (you can edit to your preferences)

Fig 8

In the form "General Treatments", you can insert any treatment common to all your trees. You can access to this form from the Control Panel

At last, and also from the Control Panel, you have Access to a list of reports, this are only a compilation of the information that you have insert in the forms, and show in different way to be printed or viewed in the screen

Fig 9

By now, we have only few reports used by us, in the following updates we'll add more contend.

If you think that you need a customized report, please let us know and we will work on it. All these reports will be added in the next updates.

 Bonsai School of Menorca