Diversity Collection

Collection Event Series

If you need a hierarchical order of your CollectionEvents or want to organize several CollectionEvents, for example, to document expeditions, you can achieve this with a CollectionEventSeries.

For a better differentiation between events and CollectionEventSeries, there is blue text in the hierarchy as well as the editing part, and a different icon . A CollectionEventSeries can contain other CollectionEventSeries and CollectionEvents. Information about the geographic locality, properties of the collection site, date of collecting etc., is stored in the CollectionEvent. To show or hide the CollectionEventSeries, you have two options. In the panel on the left of the tree the button will show the superior EventSeries of the current CollectionEvent as shown below.

The button will show the entire hierarchy of the EventSeries as shown below.

To edit the data of an EventSeries, select it in the tree to display the detail fields as shown below.

New Event Series

To insert a new CollectionEventSeries click on the button. If there are no CollectionEventSeries so far, the CollectionEvent will be placed within the new CollectionEventSeries. If there are CollectionEventSeries present, the new CollectionEventSeries will be placed below the selected CollectionEventSeries. To assign a CollectionEvent to an existing CollectionEventSeries already available in the database, click on the button.

To move an item within the hierarchy, just drag it with the mouse to whatever position it should be placed in. Keep in mind that specimens can only be placed in CollectionEvents and CollectionEvents only in CollectionEventSeries.

Removing EventSeries

If you want to delete a CollectionEventSeries or a CollectionEvent, remove all depending CollectionEventSeries, CollectionEvents and specimens and click on the  button. A specimen can not be deleted here.

If you want to remove a CollectionEvent from the current CollectionEventSeries, click on the button.

Moving into Event Series

If you want to transfer the data selected in the query results into a CollectionEventSeries, choose Data - Transfer - to event series… from the menu. If only a part of the items in the query results is selected, you will be asked whether all data in the list should be transferred. To transfer only the selected data, click NO. To transfer the entire list, click YES. Note: Only samples that are already part of a collection event can be transferred. Items without a collection event will not be included.

Images

To display the images, choose  Series images   in the header menu. To add images to a CollectionEventSeries, click the button. To remove an image, use the button. With the button you can switch to a new Chromium-based browser for the display of images. The presence of images in an event series is indicated by a yellow background on the lower of the buttons in the upper right corner. These buttons may be used as a shortcut to display the images .

To zoom a sector of the image, simply move the mouse over the image. A red square will indicate the zoomed area. To set the size of the image to the original resolution, click on the button. To adapt the size of the image to the available space in the form, click on the button. To change the orientation of the image use the appropriate buttons ( flip horizontally, flip vertically, rotate right, rotate left). To view the image in a separate form, click on the button. If the image should not be published, e.g., on the internet, enter any reason in the Withhold reason field. Besides images, you can also store other media. 

Descriptors

To add descriptors to an event series, you must first add descriptor types. Choose Administration - Enumerations - Event series - Desprictor from the menu, or click the button in the descriptor section. A window will open where you can manage the available descriptor types. Use the resp. buttons to add or remove a descriptor to the event series.

Hierarchy

If you want to change to another specimen listed in the CollectionEventSeries, select it in the hierarchy and click on the  button.

The current specimen, together with the event and all superior CollectionEventSeries will be highlighted.

Geography

The CollectionEventSeries can contain a geographical object (using WGS84) such as a point, a line, an area, etc. To edit or show the geographical object related to the CollectionEventSeries, either click on the Geography button in the details next to the notes field select the Map in the header to show the maps and use the GIS editor .

Storage

The data of the CollectionEventSeries is stored in the table CollectionEventSeries.