Edit Description Continuous View

Editing the description - Continuous view tab

The continuous view tab provides an alternate view on the descriptive data. In the Summary data only the descriptors are included where data have been entered. At the right side there is a tool strip. The displayed buttons will change depending on the selected entry. The descriptor types categorical, quantitive, text and sequence are indicated by different colours and icons as shown in the example at the bottom. By pressing the button on the tool strip this example may be hidden. Descriptors that are marked as mandatory are displayed with light red text, descriptors that are inapplicable are greyed out. Additionally coloured background indicated possible problems, e.g. if an inapplicability rule has been ignored or a not allowed descriptor has been used. A tool tip text shows the error or warning reason when the mouse curser is moved over the element.

By pressing the button the tree view may be expanded to display the contained categorical states, quantitative measures or texts. By pressing the button the tree will be collapsed to descriptor level.

To insert a descriptor press , to delete a descriptor select the entry and press . If only a single value shall be removed, select the entry and use the button. All these functions can alternatively be accessed by the context menu by a right-click on the tree node.

If for a descriptor resources, e.g. pictures, are avaialble, this is indicated by the background color of the descriptor icon. Categorical states with resources are marked with icon (see first entries in picture above). The resources may be accessed by a right-click on the tree node and selecting context menu item View resources (see picture above).

Structured descriptor view

If for the project a structured descriptor tree is defined, i.e. a descriptor tree that contains at least one descriptor tree node, the Descriptor tree: drop-down list is shown below the descriptor tree (see image below left). If a descriptor tree is selected, the descriptor tree node hierarchy will be included in the output and the descriptors will be arranged accordingly. The names of the descriptor tree nodes and the descriptors will be reduced by parts contained in the supriour hierarchy nodes (see image below right).  

If for a descriptor tree node resources are available, this is indicated by the grey background color of the descriptor tree icon. The resources may be accessed by a right-click on the tree node and selecting context menu item View resources. Additional descriptor tree node information, e.g. an optional abbreviation or details text can be viewed as bubble help by placing the mouse cursor over the item.  

Editing summary data

A click on opens an edit window at the right part of the tab. This window provides the same functions as available in the descriptor view tab. The picture below shows the resource linked to a categorical state that can be opened by doule-clicking the state ID in the Categorical states section. 

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• Edit descriptions - Main attributes tab
• Edit descriptions - Descriptor view tab
• Edit descriptions - Molecular sequence symbols
• Edit descriptions - Import sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Export sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Resource links tab
• Edit descriptions - Sample data tab

Edit Description Descriptor View

Editing the description - Descriptor view tab

The left part of the descriptor view tab shows all descriptors available for the description’s project. The entries in column “!” indicate some additional information about the descriptor:

• Descriptor is referenced in the summary data (●)
• Descriptor is referenced in the status data (○)
• Descriptor is mandatory, values must be specified (!)
• Descriptor is inapplicable because of other specified descriptors/categorical states (x)
• Descriptor is exclusive, only one categorical states shall be selected (e)

If resources are linked to a descriptor, the entry is marked by a square (□) behind its sequency number and a tool tip appears when the mouse cursor is moved over the “No.” column (see below). By double-clicking the sequence number a “Media view” window can be opened to view the resources.

If for the project descriptor trees are defined, the Descriptor tree: drop-down list and Restricted check box are shown below the descriptor list (see image below left). If a descriptor tree is selected, the names of the descriptor tree node hierarchy is included in the descriptor names (see image below right). This feature is useful, if several descriptors with ambigious names exist the can now be distinguished. E.g. two descriptors “colour”, one at descriptor tree node “Leaf”, the other at descriptor tree node “Blossom” will become “Leaf colour” and “Blossom colour”. If the descriptor name already includes the hierarchy, the duplicate parts will be filtered. In the mentioned example the descriptor names “Leaf colour” and “Blossom colour” will not be changed, if the descriptor tree is selected.

If additionally the Restricted option is set, only the descriptors included in the selected descriptor tree are displayed (see image below right, missing descriptor number 14). So you have the option to create several descriptor trees that include only special aspects of the description’s property (e.g. morphology, molecular biology and so on) to get a clearly arranged descriptor list. 

Editing summary data

The right part of the descriptor view tab shows at the bottom the Status data values of the selected descriptor. It is possible to select several values for each descriptor. In the “Notes” column additional information concerning the selected data status may be entered. By a double click on the “Notes” entry a separate edit window can be opened.

Depending on the descriptor type you can find at the top either Categorical states (see large picture above), Statistical measures, Descriptive text or Molecular sequence (see pictures below). In the “Notes” columns additional information concerning the specific categorical state rsp. statistical measure may be entered. By a double click on the “Notes” entry a separate edit window can be opened.

To enter a statistical measure value click in the “Value” field and enter the value, the check mark in field “x” will be set automatically. If recommended modifier values are defined (see “Editing the Descriptor” and “Editing the Project”), a value may be selected from the drop down list “Modifier”. If no modifier values are available, the appropriate table column may be hidden. In the “Notes” field an additional text may be added. By double-clicking the “Notes” field the Extended texteditor can be opened.

The descriptive text may be edited diretly in the window, which shows the pure text without any formatting. In the notes field an additional text may be entered. By double-clicking the text fields the Extended text editor can be opened. 

The molecular sequence window displays in the status line below the edit area the sequence type (“Nucleotide” or “Protein”), the symbol length (“Len:”) in case of proteine sequences, the gap symbol (“Gap:”) if defined, the long text of the actual element and the position (“Pos:”) (see image below). In case of three-letter proteine symbols the position is the number of the amino acid symbol, not the character position. By pressing the TAB key the cursor jumps to the next symbol. 

When characters are entered in the edit area that are recognized as valid symbols, they will automatically be formatted. One-letter symbols are converted to upper case characters, three-letter symbols are converted according the “Xxx” schema, e.g. “Ala” for “Alanine”. The sybols for the nucleotide bases "Adenine", "Cytosine", “Guanine”, "Thymine" and "Uracil" are dispayed with different colors. Ambiguity symbols and gap symbols are shown in grey color. If the ambiguity symbols have not been enabled in the descriptor data, they will be displayed with yellow background. Symbols that have not been recognized are displayed with red background. 

The molecular sequence window offers some additional functions available in the sequence menu. It may be opened by moving the mouse cursor over the control header (“Molecular sequence”, see window below left) or from the context menu (right-click on the sequence edit area, see windows below right). With menu item Import you may read the seqeunce data from a file and insert them to the description. With menu item Export you may export the actual sequence data to a file.  

By double-clicking the molecular sequence area or from sequence menu Open → Sequence a separate edit window may be opened (see image below). On the top of the window there is the drop-down menu Insert symbol: where a value may be selected from a list. After selecting the value press the [ENTER] key or click on to insert the selected symbol at the cursor position. 

To select a categorical state set a check mark in field “x” with a mouse click. If recommended modifier or frequency values are defined (see Editing the Descriptor and Editing the Project), values may be selected from the drop down lists “Modifier” rsp. “Frequency”. If no modifier or frequency values are available, the appropriate table column may be hidden. In the “Notes” field an additional text may be added. By double-clicking the “Notes” field the Extended text editor can be opened. 

If a “Modifier” or “Frequency” value is selected, the multiple specification of a dedicated categorical state is possible. A tool tip offers to add a row by doouble-click, if mouse cursor is moved over the “State” field (left picture below, picture in the midddle after double click). Multiple specifications of one categorical state are only allowed if they have been assigned different modifier and frequency values. Inputs offending these restrictions will be ignored an a cell error will indicate the problem (right picture below).

If resources are linked to a categorical state a tool tip appears when the mouse cursor is moved over the ID (left picture below). By double-clicking the ID a “Media view” window can be opened to view the resources (right picture below).

If more than one resources have been assigned to one entry, a slider will be visible at the bottom of the “Media view” window. To switch through the available resources the slider can be moved using the mouse or the right and left arrow keys (see below).

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• Edit descriptions - Export sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Continuous view tab
• Edit descriptions - Resource links tab
• Edit descriptions - Sample data tab

Edit Description HTML

Edit description in HTML form

With this form you can easily edit the description data in an HTML form. After starting a description query and selecting an entry choose Edit -> Edit as HTML form … from the menu or click on the button at the right side of the main Diversity Descriptions window. A window as shown below will be opened.

When you move the mouse cursor over embedded pictures, they are slightly magnified, by clicking on the resource, you may show it in full size (see below). Use button  Home to return to the HTML form. 

With drop down button Options you may insert some additional input fields in the form, e.g. item details or notes. With drop down button Scope you may insert input fields for the vasiour scope types and drop down button Color lets you select the background color. All that changes come into affect, when you reopen the form or redraw the HTML form using the Reload button.

After clicking the Reload button you will be asked if you want to discard all changes. By selecting No the HTML form data will be written into the local data store, otherwise all inputs will be reset. To exit the form and save all changes in the local data store, click the OK button. To ignore your changes, click the Cancel button and you will be asked if you want to discard all changes. The HTML form utility works completely on the local data store. I.e. if you edited the description data in the main form of Diversity Descriptions and start the HTLM form editor without saving the data, all changes are only present in the application dataset. To store the data in the database, click the save button of the main form!

Edit Description Molecular Sequences

Editing the description - Molecular sequence symbols

The editor for sequence data recognizes predefined symbols for nucleotide and protein sequences according the IUPAC definitions.

Nucleic acid symbols

The symbols with grey background are ambiguity symbols. The difference between “N” and a gap symbol (usually “-”, but any other symbol may be defined in the descriptor) is that a gap symbol represents an unspecified number of unknown symbols but “N” stands for exatly one nucleic acid. 

Amino acid symbols

The symbols with grey background are ambiguity symbols. The difference between “X” rsp. “Xaa” and a gap symbol (e.g. “—”, but any other symbol may be defined in the descriptor) is that a gap symbol represents an unspecified number of unknown symbols but “X” rsp. “Xaa” stand for exatly one amino acid. The amino acids “Selenocysteine” and Pyrrolysine" are non-standard amino acids that only occur in certain species. 

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• Edit descriptions - Import sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Export sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Continuous view tab
• Edit descriptions - Resource links tab
• Edit descriptions - Sample data tab

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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• Edit descriptions - Main attributes tab
• Edit descriptions - Descriptor view tab
• Edit descriptions - Molecular sequence symbols
• Edit descriptions - Import sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Export sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Continuous view tab
• Edit descriptions - Sample data tab

Edit Description Samples

Editing the description - Sample data tab

The sample data tab allows assigment and inspection of sampling events and associated sampling units for the description. In the upper left Sampling events part of the tab there is a list of the sampling events stored for the description. By selecting a sampling event entry the Event data are shown in the upper right part of the tab. Here you may edit the event name, a detailled description, the date and time rsp. a date and time span and geographic data. To insert a new sampling event click on the button in the Sampling events section, to delete the selected sampling event and all stored sampling unit data press the button (see image above). 

The geographic area may be linked to an entry of a DiversityGazetteers database (see section Module related entry). If latitiude and longituede have not yet been entered, the coordinates of the selected DiversityGazetteers entry will be inserted. By pressing the button a window to select the coordinates by Google maps will be opened. Field Geo. datum allows entering short text concerning the geodetic datum. If coordinates are entered using Google maps a remark that WGS84 coordinates are used will be inserted.

Editing sampling unit data

For each sampling events one or several Sampling units may be entered. A sampling unit represents a tuple of values that belong together, e.g. because they represent a single specimen. For each descriptor, which is represented by the table column, a value may be entered in a sampling unit, which builds a single table line. The background colour of each table column indicates the type of sample data: categorical, quantitative, text or sequence . If the number of sampling units is displayed in field Units of the Sampling units section in the lower part of the tab. If sampling units are present, the number is displayed with yellow background (see image below).

To view the unit data, select a Descriptor tree and choose the descriptor sequence range (From descriptor … to descriptor) to restrict the number of columns displayed in the unit table. Finally press button and the sampling untis will be displayed (see image below). If you prefer to display the present sampling units automatically whenever you select a sampling event, click on the number behind Units. The background changes from yellow to red to indicate this mode. When you select a cell and resources are available for the selected descriptor column, the button will be shown. You may click it to view the descriptor resources. 

To insert a new sampling unit press button . By clicking on the free space at the beginning of a table line you mark the whole sampling unit (see picture below). Now you have the additional options to delete the unit by pressing button or to copy the data to a new sampling unit by pressing the button. Keep in mind that all unit data will be copied, even if you do not see all descriptor columns due to the display restrictions.

When you select the Sampling unit ID cell you may enter a collection specimen in the Unit specimen control below the units table. By clicking the button (see section Module related entry) you can link it to an entry in a DiversityCollection database. If the sampling unit is linked to a database entry in DiversityCollection, the text of the Unit specimen: control is shown with light yellow background. You may view the linked data by clicking the button or double clicking the Sampling unit ID cell.

To modify categorical sampling data enter the table cell and press the button within the cell. A control will be opened where you can select the categorical states and enter notes or modifier values (if defined) for each single state (see image below).

For all other sampling data the value can be entered directly in the table cell. Notes for the selected table cell are entered in the Notes: text box directly below the units table. For categorical, text and molecular sequence sample data a separate edit window can be opened by double-clicking the table cell. For molecular sequence data the tool strip buttons (import) and  (export) allow import and export from rsp. to dedicated file formats as described in sections Import sequencedata and Export sequence data.

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• Edit descriptions - Molecular sequence symbols
• Edit descriptions - Import sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Export sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Continuous view tab
• Edit descriptions - Resource links tab

Export Sequence

Editing the description - Export sequence data

With this form you can export data from the database to a file. Choose Export from the sequence menu to open the window for the export. Format specifies the file format, currently FASTA and FASTQ are supported.

In the Header settings you may specify if a new header shall be generated or if the notes shall be searched for a FASTA rsp. FASTQ header. In case of FASTA export you may specify in the Comments settings section if FASTA comment lines from the notes (starting with “;”) shall be inserted after the header, the whole notes shall be inserted as FASTA comments or if the notes shall be ignored. If Insert description comments is checked, two comment linsed wit the description and descriptor title will be generated.

In the Header preview section you may check and edit the resulting header, in the Sequence preview section the converted sequence in one-letter notation is displayed.

In case of FASTQ export the Comments settings are irrelevant. If the notes include a QUALITY STRING sections, it is inserted in the FASTQ output (see image below). If no quality string can be found or the Find FASTQ quality from notes has been unchecked, the lowest quaality value “!” is inserted.

Click on the button to select the file where the data shall be exported. By default the data are appended at the end of the selected file, check the Overwrite existing file option to overwrite it. Finally click the Save file button to write the data.

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• Edit descriptions - Main attributes tab
• Edit descriptions - Descriptor view tab
• Edit descriptions - Molecular sequence symbols
• Edit descriptions - Import sequence data
• Edit descriptions - Continuous view tab
• Edit descriptions - Resource links tab
• Edit descriptions - Sample data tab

Edit Description Grid Copy

Description grid view - Copy or create descriptions

To copy one or more descriptions select the whole data rows by clicking in the area left from the “Description title” column. In the tool strip the copy button appears (see image below).

After clicking the button you may be asked if you want to copy description resources, too. Be aware that the copy operation is directly performed within the database. I.e. that local changes that have been done in the sources desrcriptions will not be included in the targets unless you save your data before copy (see image below, second and last line in descriptors 28 and 29). 

New description

To enter a new description, click on button and a new row will be appended (see image below). Same as for copy the new description is created directly within the database.

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• Description grid view - Selection parameters
• Description grid view - Data editing
• Description grid view - Save or discard changes

Edit Description Grid Editing

Description grid view - Data editing

The first column of the description table shows the description titles, which are fixed. I.e. if you scroll the summary data to the right, the titles are still visible at the left. The other columns show the summary data, where the descriptor type is indicated by the background colour: categorical, quantitative, text or sequence. The column titles include the descriptor name, the mesurement unit in square bracket for quantitative descriptors and the descriptor’s sequence number (see image below).

When a summary cell in the description table is selected, the field Description: shows the description title and field Descriptor: shows the symbols according the descriptor type ( for categorical, for quantitative, for text and for sequence) and the descriptor title. If for a descriptor resources are available, this fact is indicated by a coloured symbol background. You may view them by a double-click on the descriptor title. If for a description resources are available, the symbol is displayed before the title. Double click in that symbol to view the resources. 

For the selected cell the summary data and the descriptor status data are displayed in the upper right area of the window (see image above). You may edit the data within these controls as described in section Editing the description - Descriptor view tab of this manual. For modified summary cells the text colour changes to blue and the description titles will be shown with yellow background in the table.

Changing the description title

To change the description title, double-click on it in field Description: to open a separate edit window. After comitting the changes with “OK” the description will be marked as modified (see images below).

Changing the summary data in the table

Categorical summary data

Categorical, states are specified by their sequence number. Multiples are separated by a forward slash ("/", see image below). Existing “notes” will be removed, if the corresponding categorical state is not specified in the input.

Quantitative summary data

If you did not check the option Separate quantitative measures, for quantitative summary data only the five quantitative measures  

can be specified within the summary table. The values must be specified in theis given order and separated by a forward slash ("/"). E.g. 1////100 means “Min=1, Max = 100”. If only one value without any slashes is entered, it is assumed than only the “Mean” value is specified. To indicate that values for other than the five mentioned statistical measures are present in the data, an asterisk ("*") is appended in the summary table (see image below, cell value 1////100 *).

If you checked the option Separate quantitative measures, for each statistical measure in the quantitative summary data a separate column will be allocated in the data grid view. I.e. you can direcly enter your values into the table (see image below).

Text descriptor and Molecular sequence data

For Text and sequence data the texts may be edited directly within the table. The corresponding “notes” will not be affected.

Changing values in a table column

It is possible to modify several values of a single table column. Therefore select the table entries that shall be edited - by selecting an entry and clicking the button in section Column action you may select the whole table column (see image below). Then select the required operation: “Insert”, “Append”, “Replace” or “Clear” and enter the new rsp. new and old value. After clicking the action button - depending on the selected Column action this is (Insert), (Append), (Replace) or (Clear). Be aware that this feature performs a pure text operation in the table columns. Especially for quantitative and categorical data columns the resulting data will be interpreted according to the rules described above an might lead to unsexpected results, if not designed ver carefully. 

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• Description grid view - Save or discard changes

Edit Description Grid Save

Description grid view - Save or discard changes

When you click in button “OK” the description grid view is closed and all changes are automatically saved in the database. If you did some changes and want to save them without leaving the form, simply click on (see image below). If you close the window, e.g. by clicking the “Cancel” button, and still have unsaved changes, you will be asked to save or discard the changes.

Undo all changes

You may discard all unsaved changes without leaving the form by clicking the button and the data will be reloaded form the database (see image below).

Edit Descriptor Modifier

Editing the descriptor - Modifier/Frequency tab

The Modifier/Frequency tab allows definition of modifier and frequency values. The sequence number column (“No.”) determines the display sequence in selection lists. You may order the entries by clicking on a column header. With the arrow buttons ( ) you can move the selected entries up or down within the table, clicking button or shifts the selected entries to the top respective bottom of the table. After ordering the entries click button to renumber the table entries (starting with “1” for the first table entry) and make the changes effective. After pressing button column “Use” shows the number of references in the database for each modifier rsp. frequency value.

To enter a new modifier or frequency value, select the empty line on the end of the table and click on the “Modifier” rsp. “Frequency” field to enter the new values. After entering the new entry name automatically a new value for “No.” is initialized. To delete an entry, select the entry and press the tool strip button, the Delete key or remove the value in the sequence number column (“No.”).

There is a number of predefined modifier and frequency values commonly used. These values can be accessed by pressing the  button, which opens one of the windows shown below.

 By checking of uncecking the values, they can easily be inserted or deleted from the modifier rsp. frequency list. Values that are already used in the database are marked by a grey text colour. When these values are marked to be removed from the list, you will be asked for each single value if it really shall be deleted after pressing OK. New values are inserted at the end of the list (see below).

You may order the modifier and frequency values according the sequence of the predefined values by pressing the  button, which opens one of the windows shown below. Values that are not in the predefined lists will be shifted to the end of the list.

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• Edit descriptors - Categorical states tab
• Edit descriptors - Descriptor tree tab
• Edit descriptors - Resource links tab

Edit Descriptor Resources

Editing the descriptor - Resource links tab

The resouce links tab allows assigment and inspection of resource links for the descriptor. 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.

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. Alternatively the values may be edited manually.   

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• Edit descriptors - Main attributes tab
• Edit descriptors - Categorical states tab
• Edit descriptors - Descriptor tree tab
• Edit descriptors - Modifier/Frequency tab

Edit Descriptor States

Editing the descriptor - Categorical states tab

The Categorical states tab is only enabled, if the descriptor type has been set to “Categorical”. The upper part of the state tab shows the table of categorical states. To enter a new state select the empty line at the end of the table and click on the “Categorical state” field. After entering the “Categorical state” 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 state entries by clicking on the column header or by using the arrow buttons in the tool strip right besides the states ( and for up and down, and to shift the selected entry to top or bottom). After ordering the states click button to renumber the entries starting with “1” and make the changes effective.

If you want to delete a categorical state, you have three choices:

1. Select the state and press the button in the tool strip right besides the states.
2. Select the state 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 the categorical state is already used in any description items, the number of affected entries will be shown and you have the option to abort the action. 

If for a state at least one assigned resource is present, the state is marked by a square (□) behind its sequence number (see image above). After selecting the categorical state its assigned resources ar displayed in the lower part of the state tab, the State resource links. It allows management of resources linked to a categorical state marked in the upper table. For a detailled description take a look at the Resource links tab section.

Continue with:

• Edit descriptors - Main attributes tab
• Edit descriptors - Descriptor tree tab
• Edit descriptors - Modifier/Frequency tab
• Edit descriptors - Resource links tab

Edit Descriptor Trees

Editing the descriptor - Descriptor tree tab

The Descriptor tree tab provides the possibility for a structured assignment of the descriptors to the projects. The Descriptor tree consists of three node types, which show the administered projects, descriptor trees, descriptor tree nodes and descriptors. The tree parts’ colours are shown in the example at the bottom. By pressing the button on the tool strip at the right side the example may be hidden. The buttons displayed on the too strip will change depending on the selected entry.

The descriptor trees support three main functions:

• Assignment of descriptors to a certain project
• Selection of recommended Frequency/Modifier values and Statistical measures for a certain descriptor
• Structured arragement of the descriptors, e.g. for hierarchical selection lists and definition of descriptor subsets for description editing and export

Descriptor trees are the root of a tree and may only be appended at a project. To insert a new descriptor tree select a project and press . Descriptor tree nodes may be appended at a descriptor tree or another descriptor tree node. To insert a new descriptor tree node, select the parent and press . Descriptors may be appended to a descriptor tree or a descriptor tree node. To append a descriptor select the parent and press , to remove it select the descriptor and press . All these functions can alternatively be accessed by the context menu by a right click on the entry. The descriptor type is indicated by different icons. Categorical descriptors are marked as , quantitative descriptors as , text descriptors as and sequence descriptors as .

You may change the name of a Descriptor tree or a Descriptor tree node in three different ways:

1. Select the tree element (single click) and then click once on it.
2. Select the tree element (single click) and click on button in the tool bar on the right.
3. Right-click the tree element and select item Edit name from the context menu.

You may edit the name of the selected node within the tree. The Descriptor tree must be globally unique. The Descriptor tree node names must be unique with respect to their tree position, i.e. all nodes with the same parent within a descriptor tree must have distinguished names.

If a Descriptor tree or a Descriptor tree node does not contain any other element, it may be deleted by pressing  (delete descriptor tree) rsp. (delete descriptor tree node). Please be aware that in edit mode “Descriptor” the descriptor tree shows only the descriptor that as actually selected in the query panel! To get a complete overview of all descriptors assigned to a certain descriptor tree and to delete trees or nodes with all included objects, select edit mode “Project” (see Editprojects).

If projects and their associated descriptor trees cannot be changed, because the project has been set to “read-only” state, these parts are displayed with grey text color (see project “Schmetterlinge” in picture above).

Descriptor trees can be marked as “tree complete”, to indicate that they should contain all descriptors of the project. In this case the symbol of the descriptor tree changes from to . Setting and resetting the “tree complete” flag is described in the Edit projects section, where additional edit options are availabe.

When a new descriptor tree or descriptor tree node is inserted it gets a numeric name, which may be changed by clicking on the node or selecting from the context menu. Take care that the names of the discriptor trees must be unambiguous within the whole database! The names of the descriptor tree nodes must only be unambiguous within one parent.

If no descriptor tree is installed for a certain project, all descriptors, modifier/frequency values and statistical measures will be usable in the project’s descriptions. Anyway, if you export data or generate documents an do not have an appropriate descriptor tree, you might have missing data! If a project contains several descriptor trees, the available descriptors are the superset of the descriptors assigned to all contained trees.

Sorting of descriptor tree elements 

By pressing the button you can expand the tree view to display all elements, by pressing the tree will be collapsed to descriptor tree level. With the arrow buttons ( rsp. ) you can move descriptor tree nodes up or down rsp. to the top or the bottom. An additional ordering option is to select the descriptor tree node you want to move and click the button. The button’s back color changes to red and you may now select the new position in the tree.

In operation mode Edit projects you may take over the descriptor order from a descriptor tree to the descriptor sequence numbers of all project’s descriptors. This will affect the descriptor presentation for description data editing or document generation.  

Descriptor tree node details  

For Descriptor tree nodes you may enter an abbreviation a details text and assign resource data. Select the Descriptor tree node (single click) and click on button in the tool bar on the right. Alternatively you may right-click the Descriptor tree node and select Edit details from the context menu. An edit window as shown below will be opened.

If resources are assigned to a Descriptor tree node, its symbol is shown with grey background in the descriptor tree. You may view the resources by right-clicking it and selecting View resources from the context menu.  

Recommended statistical measures, modifiers and frequency values 

Click on in the tool bar to close the edit window in the right part of the tab or on  to reopen it. In the edit window you can select recommended modifier/frequency values and statistical measures. The recommended values can be administered for a selected descriptor or for a selected descriptor tree node. In the latter case selected values are inherited by all subordinate nodes, which will be indicated by the background colour if a subordinate node is selected in the descriptor tree. 

To define the available modifier and frequency values and their display sequence, please refer to the Modifier/Frequency tab. The statistical measure values are predefined, nevertheless their display sequence may be modified using the  button (see image above). A form as shown below will appear. With the arrow buttons ( ) you can move the selected entries up or down within the table, clicking button or shifts the selected entries to the top respective bottom of the table. After ordering the entries click button to renumber the table entries (starting with “1” for the first table entry) and make the changes effective.  

The picture below shows an example for a descriptor where the recommended statistical measures Minimum value, Maximum value and Mean are inherited by the superior node.  

For the contained descriptor only additional values may be selected, but the inherited values cannot be de-selected.

Continue with:

• Edit descriptors - Main attributes tab
• Edit descriptors - Categorical states tab
• Edit descriptors - Modifier/Frequency tab
• Edit descriptors - Resource links tab

Edit Project Dependencies

Editing the project - Descriptor applicability tab

The Descriptor applicability tab serves the administration of dependencies between categorical states and dependent descriptors. First a descriptor has to be selected either by its name in the alphabetically ordered drop down list or its sequence number (“No.”) in the first line of the descriptor dependencies tab. If for the selected project a descriptor tree is present, the  button allows selecting the descriptor form the descriptor tree (see picture below). 

The table Controlling states in the upper left part of the tab shows the categorical states if a categorical descriptor has been selected. When you have adusted the restrichted descriptor view, visible by the button in the toolbar of the Dependent descriptor section, only the actually set dependent descriptors are displayed here. You can switch to an alternate Full descriptorview as described below. For each categorical state Dependent descriptors can be inserted by pressing the button. A dialog window opens to select the descriptor either by its name, sequence number or using the descriptor tree (see picture below).

In column “Rule” the symbol indicates that the dependent descriptor is inapplicable if the controlling state is present in a description. The symbol indicates that the controlling state must be present in a description if the controlled descriptor shall be applicable. The rule can be toggled by clicking the symbol in the table or by pressing the corresponding button ( rsp. ) at the right. To remove a dependent descriptor select it and press the button.

In the lower part of the tab you find the States controlling this descriptor. You may double-click on the item to select navigate to it for editing. Alternatively you may edit the controlling descriptor states using the control buttons of the tool strip at the right. By double-clicking an entry in Dependent descriptors or in States controlling this descriptor you may navigate forwards and backwards in the chain of dependent descriptors.

If you want to get an overview of all the project’s descriptor dependencies or want to delete all dependencies, take a look at the Applicability tree section below.

Calculation of the descriptor applicability

To decide if a descriptor is applicable in a description, the following conditions are evaluated:

• Inapplicable-if rule: If only controlling states are present in a description, these make the controlled descriptor inapplicable. The character remains applicable if either no state at all, or any non-controlling states are present.
• Applicable-if rule: If any controlling state is present in a description, these make the controlled descriptor applicable. It is inapplicable if only non-controlling states are present.
• Special condition 1: If the controlling descriptor is inapplicable (through another applicability rule, or through an explicit “Not applicable” data status value), the controlled descriptor is always inapplicable as well.
• Special condition 2: If no data for the controlling descriptor are present in a description (data completely missing or only status is “Missing data” or “Not to be recorded”), the controlled descriptor always remains applicable.

Full descriptor view

By clicking the button in the toolbar of the Dependent descriptor section, you can chenge to the full descriptor view (see image below). In section Dependent descriptors all available project descriptors are shown. You may set a dependency by selecting the descriptor and clicking the button rsp. . To remove the dependency, click on button . Alternatively you may click on they symbol in the table column “Rule” to change the values in the sequence → -> .

If you select a values for the Descriptor tree, the descriptor list is restricted to the values included in that descriptor tree. Please be aware that existing dependencies might be hidden by such a selection! 

You can return to the restricted descriptor view by clicking on button .

Applicability tree

Instead of the States controlling this descriptor you may display a complete overview of the descriptor applicability rules by pressing the button in the Dependent descriptors section (see image below). By double-clicking an item in the Applicability tree you can open it for editing.

By pressing the button in the Applicability tree section you can delete all dependencies shown in the tree.

Continue with::

• Edit projects - Main attributes tab
• Edit projects - Descriptor tree tab
• Edit projects - Move/Copy descriptor trees
• Edit projects - Modifier/Frequency tab

Edit Project Modifier

Editing the project - Modifier/Frequency tab

The Modifier/Frequency tab allows definition of modifier and frequency values. The sequence number column (“No.”) determines the display sequence in selection lists. You may order the entries by clicking on a column header. With the arrow buttons ( ) you can move the selected entries up or down within the table, clicking button or shifts the selected entries to the top respective bottom of the table. After ordering the entries click button to renumber the table entries (starting with “1” for the first table entry) and make the changes effective. After pressing button column “Use” shows the number of references in the database for each modifier rsp. frequency value.

To enter a new modifier or frequency value, select the empty line on the end of the table and click on the “Modifier” rsp. “Frequency” field to enter the new values. After entering the new entry name automatically a new value for “No.” is initialized. To delete an entry, select the entry and press the tool strip button, the Delete key or remove the value in the sequence number column (“No.”).

There is a number of predefined modifier and frequency values commonly used. These values can be accessed by pressing the  button, which opens one of the windows shown below.

 By checking of uncecking the values, they can easily be inserted or deleted from the modifier rsp. frequency list. Values that are already used in the database are marked by a grey text colour. When these values are marked to be removed from the list, you will be asked for each single value if it really shall be deleted after pressing OK. New values are inserted at the end of the list (see below).

You may order the modifier and frequency values according the sequence of the predefined values by pressing the  button, which opens one of the windows shown below. Values that are not in the predefined lists will be shifted to the end of the list.

Continue with:

• Edit projects - Main attributes tab
• Edit projects - Descriptor applicability tab
• Edit projects - Descriptor tree tab
• Edit projects - Move/Copy descriptor trees

Edit Project Move Trees

Editing the project - Move or copy descriptor trees

Using the context menue, you may move or copy parts of a descriptor tree to other branches. Please note that for the move and copy operations the selected project, marked by its background colour in the descriptor tree, is assumed as the target project. You may copy descriptor trees or parts of projects with read-only access to your selected project. The move operation is certainly not possible in those cases. Note that by the copy operations only the tree structures will be copied, associated recommended statistical measures, modifiers and frequencies will not be copied! The move operations preserve those adjustments.

Remark: If you want to move or copy element from an other than the selected project, activate the “Show all projects” option by clicking the button in the tool strip. The icon background will be changed to red color to indicate that this option is active.

1. Move or copy a descriptor tree

Right click on the descriptor tree you want to move/copy. A context menu opens, that offers the options Copy ‘<tree name>’ to ‘<project name>’ rsp. Move ‘<tree name>’ to ‘project name’ (see picture below left). If you selected “Move”, the descriptor tree is removed from the original project and appended to your selected project. If you selected “Copy”, a copy of the tree will be appended to the selected project. In this case numeric IDs are appended to generate unique tree and tree node names (see picture below right). The copy function can be used to generate a clone of a descriptor tree in the selected project.

Additionally you may copy the contents of a descriptor tree to a descriptor tree node by clicking selecting the option Copy descriptor tree to descriptor tree node … rsp. Move descriptor tree to descriptor tree node … (see picture above left). A separate window opens to select the target node (see picture below left). Find the move result in the right picture below. Since the tree has been moved, the tree node names have not been changed. One duplicate descriptor has not been moved to the target node. 

2. Move or copy a descriptor tree node

Right click on the descriptor tree node you want to move/copy. A context menu opens, that offers the options Copy descriptor tree node … rsp. Move descriptor tree node … (see picture below left). After selecting one of there items a dialog windows opens where you may select the target descriptor tree or descriptor tree node (see picture below right).

If you selected “Move”, the descriptor tree node is removed from the original position and appended to the selected tree position. If you selected “Copy”, a copy of the tree node will be appended to the selected tree position. In this case numeric IDs are appended to generate unique tree node names (see picture below). The copy function can also be used to generate a clone of a descriptor tree node in the selected project.

3. Move or copy a descriptor

Right click on the descriptor you want to move/copy. A context menu opens, that offers the options Copy descriptor … rsp. Move descriptor … (see picture below left). After selecting one of there items a dialog windows opens where you may select the target descriptor tree or descriptor tree node (see picture below right).

If you selected “Move”, the descriptor is removed from the original position and appended to the selected tree position. If you selected “Copy”, a new descriptor node will be appended to the selected tree position (see picture below).

Continue with:

• Edit projects - Main attributes tab
• Edit projects - Descriptor applicability tab
• Edit projects - Descriptor tree tab
• Edit projects - Modifier/Frequency tab

Edit Project Trees

Editing the project - Descriptor tree tab

The Descriptor tree tab provides the possibility for a structured assignment of the descriptors to the projects. The Descriptor tree consists of three node types, which show the administered projects, descriptor trees, descriptor tree nodes and descriptors. The tree parts’ colours are shown in the example at the bottom. By pressing the button on the tool strip at the right side the example may be hidden. The buttons displayed on the too strip will change depending on the selected entry.

By default only the selected project. its subordinated projects and their descriptor trees are displayed. You may select the “Show all projects” option by clicking the button in the tool strip to show alle projects. To indicate that this option is active, the icon background will be changed to red color (see images below). Be aware that this option might slow down data loading.

The descriptor trees support three main functions:

• Assignment of descriptors to a certain project
• Selection of recommended Frequency/Modifier values and Statistical measures for a certain descriptor
• Structured arragement of the descriptors, e.g. for hierarchical selection lists and definition of descriptor subsets for description editing and export

Descriptor trees are the root of a tree and may only be appended at a project. To insert a new descriptor tree select a project and press , to delete it select the descriptor tree and press . Descriptor tree nodes may be appended at a descriptor tree or another descriptor tree node. To insert a new descriptor tree node, select the parent and press , to remove it select the descriptor tree node and press . Descriptors may be appended to a descriptor tree or a descriptor tree node. To append a descriptor select the parent and press , to remove it select the descriptor and press . All these functions can alternatively be accessed by the context menu by a right click on the entry. The descriptor type is indicated by different icons. Categorical descriptors are marked as , quantitative descriptors as , text descriptors as and sequence descriptors as .

You may change the name of a Descriptor tree or a Descriptor tree node in three different ways:

1. Select the tree element (single click) and then click once on it.
2. Select the tree element (single click) and click on button in the tool bar on the right.
3. Right-click the tree element and select item Edit name from the context menu.

You may edit the name of the selected node within the tree. The Descriptor tree must be globally unique. The Descriptor tree node names must be unique with respect to their tree position, i.e. all nodes with the same parent within a descriptor tree must have distinguished names.

If projects and their associated descriptor trees cannot be changed, because the project has been set to “read-only” state, these parts are displayed with grey text color (see project “Schmetterlinge” in picture above).

When a new descriptor tree or descriptor tree node is inserted it gets a numeric name, which may be changed by clicking on the node or selecting from the context menu. Take care that the names of the discriptor trees must be unambiguous within the whole database! The names of the descriptor tree nodes must only be unambiguous within one parent.

If no descriptor tree is installed for a certain project, all descriptors, modifier/frequency values and statistical measures will be usable in the project’s descriptions. Anyway, if you export data or generate documents an do not have an appropriate descriptor tree, you might have missing data! If a project contains several descriptor trees, the available descriptors are the superset of the descriptors assigned to all contained trees.

Editing the project descriptor assignemnts for a tree node 

When you use button to append a descriptor to a tree node, you will be offered all accessible descriptors in the database. In many cases, when you have already assigned all required descriptors to the project, you may wish to build some additional structured descriptor trees. If you select a descriptor tree or a descriptor tree node, the button is shown (see image below left). After clicking this button you will get a selection list with all descriptors assigned to the project. Descriptors that are included in the tree node are selected in the list (see image below right). You may easily change the selection and click “OK” to make the changes effective.

Sorting of descriptor tree elements 

By pressing the button you can expand the tree view to display all elements, by pressing the tree will be collapsed to descriptor tree level. With the arrow buttons ( rsp. ) you can move descriptors or descriptor tree nodes up or down rsp. to the top or the bottom. An additional ordering option is to select the descriptor tree node you want to move and click the button. The button’s back color changes to red and you may now select the new position in the tree. If you select a descriptor tree or a descriptor tree node, you may arrange the contained descriptors in alphabedical order by clicking the buttons (ascending) or (descending).

A descriptor tree may be marked as “tree complete” to indicate that this tree shall contain all descriptors for the project. This is done by selecting the descriptor tree node and clicking the button . To indicate that the tree is marked as complete the tree icon changes to (see picture below). 

The “tree complete” flag may be removed by clicking the button and the tree icon will be changed back to (see picture below).

If a descriptor tree is marked as “tree complete”, it can be used to take over the sorting of the descriptor nodes to the sequence number of the descriptors. But you must be aware that the descriptor’s sequence number (field “No.” in “Edit descriptor” main panel) is not project or tree dependent, i.e. that this operations will have influence on the dispolay sequence of all descriptions using these descriptors. Click on button (see picture above) to open the descriptor sorting window below.

The first column shows the descriptor names as sorted in the descriptor tree, the second column shows the current sequence number int the database and the last column shows the new sequence number. If the sequence number stays unchanged, the new sequence number is displayed with green background, otherewise with yellow background. You may click on a new sequence number and change its value manually. By clicking on the table headers, you may sort the table display according descriptor names, old or new sequence numbers. If a descriptor may not be changed, because it is assigned to a project where the user has no write access, the whole line is displayed with grey backgound and cannot be changed. Finally click on OK to accept or Cancel to reject the changes. 

An additional option available for complete trees is to copy missing descriptors with button . The descriptors available for a certain project include all descriptors assigned to all descriptor trees of the project and its sub-projects. In our example a new descriptor tree has been assigned to the upmost project (see image below left). After clicking the button all valid descriptors are inserted to the descriptor tree (see image below right). 

Descriptor tree node details  

For Descriptor tree nodes you may enter an abbreviation a details text and assign resource data. Select the Descriptor tree node (single click) and click on button in the tool bar on the right. Alternatively you may right-click the Descriptor tree node and select Edit details from the context menu. An edit window as shown below will be opened.

If resources are assigned to a Descriptor tree node, its symbol is shown with grey background in the descriptor tree. You may view the resources by right-clicking it and selecting View resources from the context menu.  

Recommended statistical measures, modifiers and frequency values 

Click on in the tool bar to close the edit window in the right part of the tab or on  to reopen it. In the edit window you can select recommended modifier/frequency values and statistical measures. The recommended values can be administered for a selected descriptor or for a selected descriptor tree node. In the latter case selected values are inherited by all subordinate nodes, which will be indicated by the background colour if a subordinate node is selected in the descriptor tree.  

To define the available modifier and frequency values and their display sequence, refer to the Modifier/Frequency tab. The statistical measure values are predefined, nevertheless their display sequence may be modified using the  button (see image above). A form as shown below will appear. With the arrow buttons ( ) you can move the selected entries up or down within the table, clicking button or shifts the selected entries to the top respective bottom of the table. After ordering the entries click button to renumber the table entries (starting with “1” for the first table entry) and make the changes effective.  

The picture below shows an example for a descriptor where the recommended statistical measures Mini mum value, Maximum value and Mean are inherited by the superior node. 

For the contained descriptor only additional values may be selected, but the inherited values cannot be de-selected.

Continue with:

• Edit projects - Main attributes tab
• Edit projects - Descriptor applicability tab
• Edit projects - Move/Copy descriptor trees
• Edit projects - Modifier/Frequency tab

Edit Sample Data Grid Editing

Sample data grid view - Data editing

The first column of the sampling unit table shows the sampling unit IDs titles, which are fixed. I.e. if you scroll the sample data to the right, the IDs are still visible at the left. The other columns show the sample data, where the descriptor type is indicated by the background colour: categorical, quantitative, text or sequence. The column titles include the descriptor name, the mesurement unit in square bracket for quantitative descriptors and the descriptor’s sequence number (see image below).

When a sample cell in the sampling unit table is selected, the field Sampl. event: shows the sampling event titles, field Description: shows the description title and field Descriptor: shows the symbols according the descriptor type ( for categorical, for quantitative, for text and for sequence) and the descriptor title. If for a descriptor resources are available, this fact is indicated by a coloured symbol background. You may view them by a double-click on the descriptor title. If for a description resources are available, the symbol is displayed before the title. Double click in that symbol to view the resources.

For the selected cell the sample data may be edited as described in section Editing the description - Sample data tab of this manual. For modified sample cells the text colour changes to blue and the sample unit IDs will be shown with yellow background in the table.

Changing the sampling event

To shift samling units to a different sampling event, select the whole data rows by clicking in the area left from the “Sampling unit ID” column. In the tool strip the set event button appears. After clicking the button a window for selecting the new parent sampling event will be opened (see image below).

Copy sampling units

To copy one or more sampling units select the whole data rows by clicking in the area left from the “Sampling unit ID” column. In the tool strip the copy button appears (see image below).

After clicking the button the copied line are inserte at the end of the tabel (see image below). 

Delete sampling units

To delete one or more sampling units select the whole data rows by clicking in the area left from the “Sampling unit ID” column. In the tool strip the copy button appears.

New sampling unit

To enter a new sampling, click on button and a new row will be appended. After clicking the button a window for selecting the sampling event will be opened.

Continue with:

• Sample data grid view - Selection parameters
• Sample data grid view - Save or discard changes

Edit Sample Data Grid Save

Sample data grid view - Save or discard changes

When you click in button “OK” the sample data grig view is closed and all changes are automatically saved in the database. If you did some changes and want to save them without leaving the form, simply click on (see image below). If you close the window, e.g. by clicking the “Cancel” button, and still have unsaved changes, you will be asked to save or discard the changes.

Undo all changes

You may discard all unsaved changes without leaving the form by clicking the button and the data will be reloaded form the database (see image below).