Screen Conventions

Mandatory Options

Field headings are colour-coded to indicate whether they are:

• Required. Required fields (always shown, highlighted in red)
• Recommended. Recommended fields (always shown, black)
• Optional. Optional fields (may be shown, Grey). To turn off the display of optional fields, deselect the Show Optional Fields checkbox at the top of the page.

Repeat

The double-plus sign next to the field name indicates repeatability (i.e. more than one value can be created, with sometimes a top-limit defined). Click on the icon to insert any additional values.

Delete

Click the Delete icon next to a field (e.g. file, pointer, geospatial and enum fields) to remove its value.

Edit

Click the pencil (edit) icon to open an edit page for a field. For example: fro pointer fields this displays up the pointed-to record for editing; for term lists it displays the tree of terms for the field, allowing the addition of new terms.

Plus

This plus button opens a popup dialog allowing you to add additional records or other entities..

Date

Allows you to add a simple date.

Temporal Date

Allows you to create a 'fuzzy' date.

Find Record

The down arrow indicates a record selection field (via the Find Record dialog)

File

Insert a file (e.g. an image field, a document etc.)

Add

Add an item.

Radio button.

Allows you to select one (only) item in a set.

Reposition rows

Allows you to drag and drop rows in a list.