Localities - My Manager
(beta version)The Localities tab of My Manager: All the features and tools found here are used the same way in other tabs of My Manager. All Localities contributed/submitted to Morphbank will be seen in this tab. A Locality record contain details for a specimen's given locale when it was observed and/or collected. More than one Specimen may be associated with a given locale.
Path to Localities tab after login is Header Menu > Tools > My Manager > Localities
Features and Functions of the Localities tab
Users familiar with Morphbank will be acquainted with most of these features. New Morpbhank users will catch on quickly due to the modular nature of the tools and icons. Note the various features in the above screen shot are explained next.
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We appreciate your comments so that we can continue to improve and enhance Morphbank.- Keywords: Use the new enhanced search feature. Hover over to see a list of fields the Keywords accesses. See the yellow note above.
- Limit Search by:A new feature of this (beta version) of Morphbank allows a user to view only the objects personally contributed/submitted AND/OR those from a particular group. Use the Header Menu > Tools > Select Group > Choose group from sub-menu feature to change groups OR use the Group link in the Header on the left side of the Main Screen.
- Check box: Note the
to the left of each Locality Id and Title. Use this
feature to Select one or more Localities which will then be highlighted. A particular action can now
be applied to all the checked Localities at one time using the Select Mass Operation feature. If a
user wishes to collect all the Localities on a given page into a collection, use the Check All button,
then Select Mass Operation > Create new collection > click Submit button. - Select Mass Operation: After checking one or more Localities with the check box feature, options in the drop-down of Select Mass Operation can be applied to all the Localities checked. An example would be: gathering all the checked Localities into a new or existing collecion.
- Submit: Click this button to carry out the Mass Operation selected.
- Icons: The icons and their functions are explained fully in Morphbank
Guide to Graphic Buttons. An abbreviated
explanation can be found on the All page
for My Manager.
- The
icon shows metadata for the object,
in this case the Locality in a format that Morphbank refers to as the Show.
- Using the
Edit icon gives users access to
change/update data for any Localities they've contributed/submitted.
- Note the
is a link to all
images in Morphbank linked to this particular Locality.
- The
Creating Collections with My Manager
: To group objects (in this case, Localities) together creating a collection, follow the steps in the box next:- use the check box next to each desired locality.
Each locality checked will be highlighted in green.
- After checking all desired items, go up to the Select Mass Operation drop-down and choose the desired action (like Create New Collection or Copy to Existing Collection).
- Click the
to perform the Mass Operation selected.
Add a Locality to Morphbank
Edit a Locality in Morphbank
Known Issues in this Beta Version
New Features
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