INXtree Browser

(Could also be called Categories List.)

Purpose

This screen is used to browse the entire INXtree structure.

This screen also serves as the main entry point to the creation and edition of individual Categories (i.e. nodes in this hierarchical structure).

For further information about the creation, edition and management of Category objects, and of the INXtree as a whole, please refer to the Categories Edition Page and the Concepts page.

Getting There...

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

Fields

Each entry in the list will use the following layout:

inode* (count)

[actions]

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

./buttons in the first 2 columns:: Navigation controls -- see below.
inode:: The category name. When followed by a star ('*'), a comment has been entered for that category. Hover your mouse over its name 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.
count:: The number of objects that are attached to the current category (strict match in this case, objects attached to sub-nodes of the current category are ignored).

The first column (or second column, depending on the page shown and the contents of the row) contains round blue ./buttons that you should click to navigate the hierarchical structure of the INXtree. Here is their function:

: "opens" the category listed on that row and shows all sub-nodes (sub-categories) that it contains. The selected category will be shown on the first line of the next screen. Allows you to drill down your tree.
: located only on the first line of any screen, except for the top-most view (the "root" of the tree). Returns you one level above in the tree.

Please note that the current implementation of this tree navigation has been done using pure HTML and without any cookie tricks or anything similar. This means that at present, you can only expand a single category at a time.

Category actions

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

Category name: the Category name (or inode, column before last) is a link that opens the Categories Edition Page in view mode for the selected Category.
Link: opens the Object Selector in a new windows. Allows you to attach more fully-fledged objects (of any supported type) to the current category.
Edit: opens the Categories Edition Page in edit mode for the selected Category.
Copy: opens the Category Selector in a new window (to let you select the target for the copy), followed by the Categories Edition Page in copy confirmation mode for the selected Category (use it to copy an entire sub-tree below another node).
Move: opens the Category Selector in a new window (to let you select the target for the move), followed by the Categories Edition Page in move confirmation mode for the selected Category (use it to move an entire sub-tree below another node).
Del: opens the Categories Edition Page in delete confirmation mode for the selected Category. You can then confirm to proceed with the deletion or cancel it and return to the list. Please note that deleting a category will recursively delete all sub-categories it contains, but will not remove any object that might be attached to any of these categories.

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

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

Related pages menu

At the bottom of the page, between the Categories 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 reports on your INXtree), pages that are not directly reachable through the header toolbar.

Here are the menu entries in question:

Flat list: opens the INXtree Report Page in "flat list" mode.
Preview: opens the INXtree Report Page in "project preview" mode (using the currently selected category as top node).