Diversity Collection

Tutorial

Relation

In DivesityCollection you have the ability to define and manage connections between data. Specifically, the module supports two types of relations:

  1. Internal Relations: These are connections to specimen that already reside within DiversityCollection.

  2. External Relations: These are connections to specimen that are not managed within DiversityCollection.

For further information on relations see the chapter Relation.

1. Internal relations

  1. To enter a relation to a specimen in DiverisityCollection select the specimen in the tree (see point 1 in image below)
  2. Click on the button (see point 2 in image below).

 

  1. A window will open where you can search for the related specimen.
  2. In the window enter your restrictions (see point 1 in the image below)
  3. Start the query (see point 2 in image below).
  4. Select the related specimen from the result list (see point 3 in image below)
  5. Click OK (see point 4 in image below) to insert the relation.

 

  1. Select the relation entry (see point 1 in the image below) to display the details fields.
  2. Enter the type of the relation (see point 2 in the image below).  

 

2. External relations

  1. To enter a relation to a specimen from a foreign collection, create a relation (see point 1 in the image below)
  2. Select it in the tree view (see point 2 in the image below).
  3. Enter the name of the specimen (see point 3 in the image below).
  4. Select the type of relation (see point 4 in the image below).
  5. If a dataset exists for the collection, you can select it from the list (see step 5 in the image above). (Otherwise you must first add the collection to the list. For more information see the chapter Collection)

 

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