Trays List

Purpose

This screen is used to browse the entire Trays list, by default ordered by tray ID.

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

For further information about the creation, edition and management of Tray objects, please refer to the Slide Trays Edition Page and the Pictures Management Workflow.

Getting There...

The Trays management screens are not available straight from the Main Application Menu. To reach the Trays list:

From the Main Application Menu (or indeed almost any other Project Hirtius page), click on the "Manage Slides" icon in the header ().
Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click on the Slide Trays link located between the Slides List and the page footer. This gets you to the Slide Trays List.

Fields

Each entry in the list will use the following layout:

tray id*

tray name (scount / smax)

pctfull %

is digital

hex numbered

[actions]

For the description, format and meaning of each field, please refer to the Slide Trays Edition Page. In addition to the fields defined in the Tray record, or on top of their usual meaning, we also have these extra ones (computed fields, for the most part):

tray ID: When followed by a star ('*'), a comment has been entered for that Tray. 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.
(picture icon): hyperlink to the "Photo Gallery" HTML index page generated from all the Slides stored in that Tray (if present)
scount: slides count. How many slides this tray already contains. Queried from the Slides table.
smax: alternate name for the slides per tray field defined on the Slide Trays Edition Page.
pctfull: percentage of fill for the tray. Computed based on scount and smax.

Controls

Sort order bar

The first row of controls beneath the page header allows the user to select the desired sort order for the list. The currently active sort order is rendered as text, whereas all other available choices are rendered as HTML links. Here are the two available choices:

by ID: (default). Ordered by increasing tray ID.
by name: ordered by increasing tray name + tray ID.

Selecting a different sort order always returns you to the top of the list (as defined by that order).

Navigation bar

The second row of controls beneath the page header allows the user to navigate the Trays list based on the currently selected sort order (see above). Some action links (prev and next) may be rendered as text when not applicable.

Here are the available actions:

First: jump to top of list (first record).
Prev: show previous page (i.e. previous chunk of 'N' records, where 'N' is a value defined in the Global Definitions File).
All: show all records on a single page. Depending on the length of the list, this may be more than your browser can handle, and it may make it crash.
Next: show next page (i.e. next chunk of 'N' records, where 'N' is a value defined in the Global Definitions File).
Last: jump to bottom of list (last record).

Tray actions

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

Tray ID: the Tray ID (left-most column) is a link that opens the Slide Trays Edition Page in view mode for the selected Tray.
Edit: opens the Slide Trays Edition Page in edit mode for the selected Tray.
Clone: opens the Slide Trays Edition Page in clone mode for the selected Tray (use it to create a new Tray record based on a copy of the original one: all fields will be pre-filled; further edit them as needed before hitting Submit). The contents of the original tray (the slides it may contain) is obviously not copied.
Del: opens the Slide Trays Edition Page in delete confirmation mode for the selected Tray. You can then confirm to proceed with the deletion or cancel it and return to the list. Beware: deleting a tray record will also delete all the slide records it contains, including all of their metadata. The confirmation message will tell you if your tray still contains slide records. If you want to keep them, move them to another tray before removing this one.

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

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

Related pages menu

At the bottom of the page, between the Trays 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 Trays reports), pages that are not directly reachable through the header toolbar.

Here are the menu entries in question:

Tray List: opens the Slide Trays Report Page.