Specimens - My Manager
(beta version)The Specimens tab of My Manager: All the features and tools found here are used the same way in other tabs of My Manager. All Specimens contributed/submitted to Morphbank will be seen in this tab.
Path to the Specimens tab after login is Header Menu > Tools > My Manager > Specimen tab
Features and Functions of the Specimens 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.
: please use this link to our automated feedback system. 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.
- 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 Specimen Id and Title. Use this
feature to Select one or more Specimens which will be highlighted. Ruizantheda and
Crabronidae are selected in the above example to illustrate this feature.
Then, a particular action can be applied to all the specimens at one time using the
Select Mass Operation feature explained next. - Select Mass Operation: After checking one or more Specimens with the check box feature, options in the drop-down of Select Mass Operation can be applied to all the Specimens checked. Examples highlighted in yellow (above) include: gathering all the checked Specimens into a new or existing collecion, creating a character collection or adding to an existing character colletion.
- 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.
Briefly, the
icon
shows metadata for the image.
The
icon
gives users access to change/update/edit data for any Specimens they've contributed/submitted.
The
camera icon is
the user's link to see existing images of a particular specimen in Morphbank.
- Annotations: If annotations exist for any Image of a given Specimen, this will be a blue link (as in the above third Specimen id 196228) to the annotations.
Creating Collections with My Manager
: To group objects (in this case, specimens) together creating a collection, follow the steps in the box.- To group objects together creating a collection, use the
check box next to each Object Id and Title.
Each item checked will be highlighted in green. - After checking all desired items, go up to the
drop-down
and choose the desired action (like Create New Collection, Create New OTU,
or Copy to existing collection/OTU... and then click Submit. OTUs express a concept of a possible new classification, or grouping of taxa.
- Other objects from other tabs in My Manager can be added to a Morphbank user's existing Collection in the same manner.
- Any Collections created can be seen in the Collections tab.
- Any OTUs created can be seen in the Taxa tab
Creating an Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) is a new feature of this version of Morphbank.
FSI Viewer
: Morphbank utilizes a proprietary viewer with its unique capabilities to increase the value of the photograph for the user. Click on any thumbnail, click on the resulting image in the Image Record Show to open the image in the FSI Viewer.Add a Specimen to Morphbank
Edit a Specimen in Morphbank
Known Issues in this Beta Version
New Features
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