Books and Articles List

Purpose

This screen is used to browse the entire Books list, and from there access the Articles they may contain.

This screen also serves as the main entry point to the creation and edition of individual Books and Articles.

For further information about the creation, edition and management of Book and Article objects, please refer to the Books Edition Page and Article Edition Page.

Getting There...

From the Main Application Menu (or indeed almost any other Project Hirtius page), click on the "Manage Books" icon in the header ().

Fields

Each entry in the list will use the following layout:

book_id*

anchor

author

title

pub_year

article_count

[actions]

For the description, format and meaning of each field, please refer to the Books Edition Page. A few words on those that are not defined there or need extra clarification:

book_id:: When followed by a star ('*'), a comment has been entered for that book. Hover your mouse over its ID to get it displayed as a tooltip. Comments that are longer than '$max_ttip_len' char. (see Global Definitions File) will be trucated and suffixed with '...' to denote the truncation.
anchor:: A globe icon () that will lead you to an on-line version of the book contents if one is available.
title:: Book title. Rendered as italics for regular books, underscored for periodicals. If a subtitle was provided, it will be appended to the title in this field (separated by ', ').
article_count:: The number of Articles contained in that particular book.

The first row of controls beneath the page header allows the user to switch between the Books and Articles List and the Weblinks List. The currently active page is rendered as text, whereas the other available choice is rendered as HTML link. Here are the two available choices:

Books & Articles: leads you to the Books and Articles List.
Web Links: leads you to the Weblinks List.

Book actions

For each Book in the list, the first and last columns of its row contain links that correspond to actions to be performed on the Book object.

Book ID: the Book ID (left-most column) is a link that opens the Books Edition Page in view mode for the selected Book.
Edit: opens the Books Edition Page in edit mode for the selected Book.
Clone: opens the Books Edition Page in clone mode for the selected Book (use it to create a new Book record based on a copy of the original one: all fields will be pre-filled; further edit them as needed before hitting Submit).
Add article: opens the Article Edition Page in add mode (displays a blank HTML form to be filled in order to create a new Article record that will automatically be linked to the selected book).
Del: opens the Books Edition Page in delete confirmation mode for the selected Book. You can then confirm to proceed with the deletion or cancel it and return to the list. Please note that deleting a Book also deletes all the Articles that it may contain.

In addition to this, a global action is available on the last row (bottom right corner) of the list:

Add: opens the Books Edition Page in add mode (displays a blank HTML form to be filled in order to create a new Book record).

Related pages menu

At the bottom of the page, between the Books list and the page footer, a small secondary menu is located that will give you access to pages related to the task at hand (such as Libraries management), pages that are not directly reachable through the header toolbar.

Here are the menu entries in question:

Libraries: opens the Libraries List.