The Weblinks Edition Page

Purpose

This screen is used to create, view, update, clone and delete Weblink records. In the context of Project Hirtius, you need to create a Weblink record before you can quote it using a bibref record (bibliographical reference) while documenting your fully-fledged or lesser objects.

Getting There...

To reach the Edition Page of an existing Weblink:

From the Main Application Menu (or indeed almost any other Project Hirtius page), click on the "Manage Books" icon in the header (). This gets you to the Books and Articles List.
Click on the Web Links "tab". This gets you to the Weblinks List}.
Navigate the Weblinks List until you locate the weblink you're looking for.
Then click on the weblink ID (first column), or on any of the action links (last column) to view, edit, clone or delete the weblink record in question.

Of course, you can also reach the Weblink view or edition screen through a lot of other ways, such as using search results (see Navigation Tips).

To add a new Weblink record:

From the Main Application Menu, click on the "Manage Books" icon in the header (). This gets you to the Books and Articles List.
Click on the Web Links "tab". This gets you to the Weblinks List}.
Press [End] to reach the bottom of the list.
Click the Add action link in the bottom-right corner of the list.

Supported actions

The Weblink Edition Page supports the following actions:

Add: the form to fill in and submit in order to create a new Weblink record.
Insert: creating the new Weblink record in the database (post Add action).
Edit: modifying an existing Weblink record through a form populated based on the current database contents.
Update: storing the modified data in the database, updating the appropriate Weblink record (post Edit action).
View: display the current database contents for the selected Weblink record. No form in this case.
Clone: create a new Weblink record from a form filled by the database contents of an existing record. The Clone action will be followed by an Insert upon submit.
DelCon: first step when requesting the deletion of a record -- issues a prompt for confirmation.
Del: the actual removal of the selected record (as well as all linked metadata records) from the database (post DelCon action).
That action will be recorded: a new entry will be added to the Event Log.

Of these, only Add, Edit, View, Clone and DelCon are entry points. They are typically reached from the Weblinks List (but in the case of View, there are many more possibilities).

Fields

Here below are the fields that you can expect to find on the Weblink Edition Page. The goal here is not to simply duplicate the database layout information. If this is what interests you, please refer to the Database Layout, the database creation script or the database itself. The purpose is rather to explain what each field is meant for [D], what format it is expected to follow [F] and what are the conditions for its validity (if applicable) [V].

A star (*) after the name of the field denotes a mandatory field (the star is shown in red with the same meaning in the application user interface).

Object ID*	D	Sequential ID, automatically assigned by the DB during record creation. Displayed read-only once available.
Title*	D	Title of the Web Page.
Title*	F	Free text. HTML markup allowed, but it is recommended to limit its use to simple tags (e.g. italics). Do *not* terminate by a full stop (.), as these will be added by the application when displaying.
URL*	D	URL (web address) of the page. When set, a globe icon linking to this URL will be displayed next to the weblink ID in the Weblinks List, giving the user direct access to the contents.
URL*	F	URL.
Published	D	Year of publication. Leave empty if this information is not available.
	F	Up to 6 digits.
	V	Should be a numerical value (int).
Is Query	D	Check this flag to identify a Weblink that points to an on-line database (e.g. a National Architectural Heritage database, a museum collections catalogue or an on-line encyclopedia). If checked, please make sure that the 'URL' field only contains the common part of the URL, valid for all records. The variable part of the URL (the query part, the one that identifies a specific record) will be specified when quoting this URL in the Object - Bib. Ref. Edition Page using the 'query term' field.
Is Query	F	Checkbox.
Alive	D	Uncheck this flag if the Weblink in question goes dead (if the original page is no longer available on the Internet). Set to true by default on the record creation page. Later on, a script will be made available to periodically check all Weblinks recorded in the database, update the 'last seen' field and automatically remove this flag on the dead ones.
Alive	F	Checkbox.
Comment	D	Any comment you might have on the weblink itself (how you found out about it, alternate locations where it's available), or its subject (its relevance for your work, its level of quality and target audience).
Comment	F	Free text. HTML markup allowed.

Controls

In View mode

URL: The registered URL for the Weblink is made into a hyperlink.
Quoted by link(s): The Quoted by section offers direct links to the objects that quote the current weblink through bibrefs. These links will open the object edition page in 'view' mode.
Switch to edit mode link: Located at the bottom of the page, just above the footer. Click on this link to edit the current object (switches the view from a R/O rendering of the contents to an HTML form that allows you to modify that contents and submit it afterward).

In Edit mode

Submit button: (Also in "Add" and "Clone" modes). Commits the locally modified HTML form fields contents to the database that stores Project Hirtius data. Use it to save your latest modifications. It is of course perfectly legitimate to click Submit any number of times during a long edition session to avoid loosing unsaved data. When doing so, use the Edit this weblink some more... link on the update result screen (see below) to return to the current weblink record and edit it further.
Reset button: (Also in "Add" and "Clone" modes). Cancels any un-committed change, and returns all HTML form fields to their initial value (i.e. the one they had when the page was last loaded in the browser). Use this button to revert any erroneous edit you might have done (Beware: this only works on local changes that have not been saved to the database yet, i.e. for which you've not clicked on Submit yet).
Quoted by link(s): The Quoted by section offers direct links to the objects that quote the current weblink through bibrefs. These links will open the object edition page in 'view' mode.
Switch to view mode link: Located at the bottom of the page, just above the footer. Click on this link to view the current object (switches from the current HTML form that allows you to modify the object contents and submit it afterward to a R/O rendering of that contents).

In Insert or Update result mode

This result page appears once you have clicked the Submit button on the Add, Edit or Clone page. It will offer the following links:

Edit this weblink some more... link: Returns you to the current Weblink record in edit mode. Use this link to further edit the weblink in question. This link is also present just after you added a new weblink.
Add a new weblink link: Opens the form that allows you to create a new Weblink record. Usefull when creating multiple records in sequence.
Weblink list link: Returns you to the Weblinks List.