Edit

General Rules:

You must be logged in to edit your records and you must have permission to edit those records.
Only contributors, submitters of a record, group coordinators and lead scientists have permission to edit.
Published records may not be edited.
If you find a problem with a published record please contact mbadmin at scs dot fsu dot edu for help.
Click the icon to open the Edit popup for a particular object.

This Edit manual page contains general instructions for how to edit most Morphbank Objects including:

Images
Specimens
Views
Localities
Taxa
Annotations
Publications

Knowing where to edit:

With the release of the new (beta) My Manager user-interface, a user can edit their objects from any of the Tabs in My Manager.
If logged in, you may still edit information about an object from Browse. Find the next to the object to be edited. Click the icon to open the Edit window.
Collection information and Annotation information are edited from their respective tabs in the new My Manager interface. (The old Collection and Annotation Managers have been removed).

For an unpublished Collection a user has created, they may Edit this Collection by finding and opening it in My Manager Collections from the icon.
From My Manager > Annotations, a user finds their unpublished Annotations and clicks on the icon to open the Edit Annotation Screen. Go to
Edit Annotations
for details.

Icons commonly found in Edit:
Mail: This icon indicates that you cannot directly change or add but can email mbadmin at scs dot fsu dot edu and request a change.
Browse: To modify the record you must select from already existing records
Add a record: You can add a new record by clicking on the plus

Edit using Browse:

Note well, the Browse module may soon be removed. Every object uploaded by a given user can be edited from the appropriate tab in My Manager. Once in My Manager, a user selects the tab (Images, Views, Localities, Specimens, Publications, Collections, Annotations) of choice and then searches (and/or Limits) to find the object/s to be edited. Then, use the

icon to open the Edit pop-up.

At the moment, you may edit your Locality, Specimen, View, Image, Publication records in two different ways,

via the icon anywhere in Browse,
or via the icon anywhere in My Manager.

For example: if you know a specific location record is incorrect, Browse to that record and click the edit icon. This icon will take you to the Edit Locality page where you can modify information about that specific location record.

Also you can add or edit External Links from this window. Once you have finished changing the form click the

button. A small window will popup that requires a response. This window tells you how many records will be affected by the change you are about to make. Not to worry you will not be able to change records for which you do not have permission. Selecting yes will send the user back to the Edit Locality screen where a confirmation message will explain that the update has been made. Selecting no or cancel will send you back to the Edit Locality screen without making any changes.

To access a specific record it is best to use Edit via the icon in My Manager.

Edit Hints and Common Questions:

Set a standard image for a Specimen or View:
From the Specimen Edit and View Edit you can set a standard image. The standard image is the image that best represents your concept of the View or Specimen. The default image is the first image you entered and if another image is desired as the standard display image, click on the and choose it from the list of images.

Delete:
You can delete or replace an image, or delete a record in the system if no one has used the image or annotated the information. Please contact mbadmin at scs dot fsu dot edu if you have any questions about deleting. You will see the

if you have delete privileges for a given object.

Adding and Editing Links:

Links can be added to Specimen, Location and Image records. Click on the blue text Add Links to open this feature. These links will appear on the single show for that record. Links also can be added to other objects in morphbank!

Edit Images:

From Edit Image users can:

change to a different Specimen Id or View Id
add a completely new Specimen record or View associated with the selected image.
and if the image is unpublished, a user may replace the image.
Users cannot currently edit the existing Specimen record, View, or Locality data from this page. Go directly to My Manager or Browse, find the Specimen or View to be edited, click the icon next to the Specimen or View to change details of the data for those objects.