A Non-Description Tech's Guide
FAQ Table of Contents
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Introduction
This guide covers 16 of the most commonly asked questions by description and paleontology scientists about DESClogik. The guide is intended to assist technicians and scientists when the Description technician is unavailable.
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- Widen and shrink columns
- Hide and unhide un-hide columns
- Change the background colour
- Sort the sublist by most frequently used
as well by To do any of these changes: simply right click on a column header. Permissions are set by the DESC administrator, so some features may not be available.
NOTE: When right clicking, and choosing "Edit Visibility, checking and unchecking the list ", you can change the visibility of all columns . Data associated columns by checking or unchecking the column boxes. When hiding columns, data associated with it will not disappear; however, the column will just have to be unhidden in order to download data. These permissions are set by the DESC administrator, so some features may not be available. un-hidden to view downloaded data.
NOTE: Changes can be saved permanently or per session; a dialogue warning will appear after each action (Figure 6).
NOTE: changes saved will apply Changes apply to all users of the that template, and some might not like what one person has donethus make sure you and your team agree on the changes made.
Figure 6. Template Changes Warning
11. My data looks different then when I uploaded it/there are duplicate descriptions?
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- your data looks different between uploading and downloading it, i.e your downloaded data comes back with different values, the template column definitions might be duplicated. The administrator must correct the issue, so please let them know.
- If there are duplicate descriptions
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- : it is likely
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- that data has not been downloaded and checked, before entering sample data. To correctly edit or add data to
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- an already described sample
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- , users must first download the data
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- . After downloading, you can enter new
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- information, cancel existing data or edit values. Duplicates can be removed by converging data to one of the samples, and then canceling the others. This is best left to the DESC admin.
12. DESClogik froze while uploading data, what do I do and how can I recover my data?
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