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- | 4 Editing the CERL Thesaurus | + | ===== 4 Editing the CERL Thesaurus |
- | 4.1 Selecting an Editor | + | {{ : |
- | 4.2 Using the Form Based Editor | + | At the bottom of every record you will find the buttons that allow you to edit the data in the CERL Thesaurus (if you have the necessary access rights, that is). This follows |
- | 4.3 Using the CT Internal Format Editor | + | Depending on your editing rights, there can be up to three icons: |
- | 4.4 Using the YAML Editor | + | The rightmost, that shows a small rubbish bin, will **delete** the record. Please be careful with this one, you will be asked for confirmation (twice, acutally) before |
- | 4.5 Deduplicating Records | + | The middle one, showing two sheets of paper, will make a **copy** of the record and open it in the form based editor. This might be useful if you are creating a number of very similar records and want to save some time typing the same things in over and over. Although, this is probably more of use in the other databases living in this hosting environment than to the CERL Thesaurus. |
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+ | The leftmost button, showing a notepad and a pencil, will open the current record for **editing**. There are currently four different editors available, according to your editing rights you will presented a list where you can pick the one that is best for what you want to do with the record. | ||
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+ | ==== 4.1 Selecting an Editor ==== | ||
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+ | If your account has complete editing rights on the CERL Thesaurus, you will be shown the following selection of editing clients. Each of it has its strengths and weaknesses and you may want to choose the client you want to use according to the things you want to edit in the record and according to how close you feel to the Thesaurus' | ||
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+ | ==== 4.2 Using the Form Based Editor ==== | ||
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+ | The form based editor presents the record in a web form where each data element is in a separate field and where each field has a plain text label. If you are not (yet) very familiar with the CERL Thesaurus format or want to enter a new record from scratch, this editor might be a good choice. On the other hand, the record structure of the Thesaurus is quite complex and records can get rather lengthy, which can lead to enormously long forms that can be difficult to navigate. | ||
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+ | The form consists of two main parts: data about the entity that the record describes (the actual " | ||
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+ | The part // | ||
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+ | Fields you cannot edit, like the editing history, have a pale grey background. | ||
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+ | Fields may contain subfields. In these cases subfields are contained in a separate sub-form, which by default is also folded, so you can only see the fields title. You will recognise these folded subforms by a little black downward pointing error on the left side. Click on the field' | ||
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+ | A big blue plus-sign on the right of a field means that this field is repeatable and that you can add another field of this kind by clicking on it. Please note that in order to add an additional complex sub-form, you have to open the last sub-form to find the blue plus-button. When adding additonal fields, the order of fields is kept as it is in the form. So, if you want to add a new " | ||
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+ | When done editing, click the green //Save// button at the bottom of the form, or //Cancel// if you want to discard your changes. | ||
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+ | ==== 4.3 Using the CT Internal Format Editor ==== | ||
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+ | ==== 4.4 Using the YAML Editor ==== | ||
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+ | The YAML editor is the most powerfull of the available editing clients. It allows you to directly manipulate the internal data structure and you should use it only if you know exactly what you are doing. | ||
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+ | Internally records are stored in [[https:// | ||
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+ | For longer records, you can switch the editor to full screen mode by pressing [F11] or clicking the yellow button labeled " | ||
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+ | If you are trying to save your record, but nothing happens, you have most likely made an error with the YAML-Syntax. Since the editor does not yet return a validation report, you may copying the record into an external validator (e.g. [[http:// | ||
+ | ==== 4.5 Deduplicating Records |
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