Edit Description Resources

Editing the description - Resource links tab

The resouce links tab allows assigment and inspection of resource links for the description. In the lower Resources part of the tab there are two tables. Ar the left the “Resource” table specifies the single resources, at the right the “Resource variant” table contains the associated URLs to images, video or sound resources.

To enter a new resource select the empty line at the end of the “Resource” table and click on the “Resource name” field. After entering the “Resource name” (leave the cell by pressing the TAB key) automatically a new value for the sequence number (“No.”) is initialized. The sequence number determines the display order in tables and may be changed manually. You may order the resource entries by clicking on the column header or by using the arrow buttons in the left tool strip ( and for up and down, and to shift the selected entry to top or bottom). After ordering the resources click button to renumber the entries starting with “1” and make the changes effective. In field “Ranking” you may enter a numeric value in range 0 … 10 expressing the suitability of the resource. In field “Role” you may select one of the offered values.

If you want to delete a resource, you have three choices:

  1. Select the resource and press the button in the left tool strip.
  2. Select the resource and press the Delete key on the keyboard.
  3. Enter the sequence number column (“No.”) and remove the value. After leaving the cell the entry will be deleted.

In any case you will be asked if you want to delete the data row, if resource links are present. 

To view or edit the additional resource data and copyright information press on the button besides the resource table. In field License: and a link to the license text in the web may be entered, in field Rights: you may enter a copyright text. By pressing the button a browser window can be opened to navigate to the license page in the web. Furthermore you may enter a detailled text (field Details:), the resource language (field Language:) and set the Display embedded flag (see picture below). If any additional resource data have been entered, this will be indicated by a square (□) behind the resource name’s sequence number (see picture above).

 

To enter a resource link, first select the entry in the “Resource” table, then select the empty line at the end of the “Resource variant table”. By clicking on the “URL” field a web address may be entered. By double-clicking the “URL” field a browser window opens to navigate to the resource. For each resource several URLs to resource variants with different quality levels, e.g. different resolution, may be inserted. For each entry in the URL table a different value of “Variant” must be selected.

As an alternative to a resource URL a colour may be spcified in the format “color://#rrggbb” where “rrggbb” specifies a hexadecimal colour code. The colour can simply be seleced by clicking the button besides the resource variant table.

To remove a resource variant, select the entry and press the button in the right tool strip or the Delete key on the keyboard. Alternatively you may delete the “URL” entry in the resource variant table. 

The button besides the resource variant table allows you to view a resource URL in the system browser.

The upper part of the resource links tab consists of a preview window on the left side and the complete list of resource links. By selecting one of the links the preview is shown on the preview window. If you press button in the preview window, the resource is opened in a separate viewer window.

At the bottom of the resource links tab the media data of a selected URL are displayed. These data can be edited by double-clicking the “Type” entry in the resource variant table, by clicking at one of the media data value fields or the button. The edit dialog provides the possibility to access the URL to get available data. Additionally the values may be edited manually.   

 

Copy description resources to a descriptor

If you have write access to descriptors of the currently selected description’s project, you may copy a selected resource URL to a descriptor. After clicking the button a window will open to select one of the accessible descriptors (see image below). Remark: To see the copied resources in the Descriptorview or the Continuous view, you will have to reconnect to the database. 

 

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