Notepad
This facility allows the user to create notes linked to specific datasheets.
These notes are shared between the user's subscriber group.
Creating a User Note
To create a user note, click on Add note on the datasheet's menu, or
click the Notepad link of the main menu bar followed by Add Note. A free
text box then appears in which the notes, results or comments can be written and
saved using the Save Note button.
Viewing, Editing, Saving and Deleting Notes
All notes that have been created can be viewed and edited from the Menu
bar by clicking on the Notepad link or from selecting the note from
an individual datasheet.
When saving a note, the system checks to ensure that no modifications have
been made to the same note by another member of the user's subscriber group. If
someone else has edited and saved the note in the time that another was editing,
the initial user is notified of the situation and asked to make a decision as to
whether to cancel their changes and accept the ones already made, or to
overwrite the stored changes with their changes. The user also has the option to
rewrite their note to incorporate the changes made by the second user. This
concatenated note may then be saved to the database.
To delete a Note, click on the Notepad option and then the 
icon displayed to the left of the selected note.
Any text displayed whilst viewing a note is immediately active and can be
softlinked. You can select any word or multi-word term in your User note, and
then click the softlink button to display a different datasheet,
reference or a glossary definition. From the displayed window other options may
be chosen. For example, highlighting the word abdomen and clicking the softlink
button will find all the glossary entries that contain the term abdomen
and all the datasheets that have names containing the word abdomen. From
the softlink results page you can navigate to a glossary definition of a datasheet.
Subheadings
If you wish to give your notes subheadings, you may do so by wrapping the text
in HTML heading tags. An example of this is: <H1>My Title</H1>.
To work your way down the levels of subheadings, simply increase the heading
number, i.e. H2, H3, H4 and so on.
Inserting File Names and Internet Addresses
The notepad facility saves text as straight HTML. Therefore to link to
filenames, web addresses, pictures etc, the correct HTML tags must be used.
Filenames of documents can be inserted in the User Note, but the appropriate
application must be installed on the user's machine in order to run the file. e.g.
if trying to link to a ".doc" file, Microsoft Word must be installed.
Examples of how to insert the following are listed below:
| To Insert |
Format |
Example |
| An Internet Address |
<a href="http://web
address goes here">title to display</a> |
<a href="http://www.cabi.org">CAB
International Website</a> |
| |
|
|
| A filename |
<a href="file://file
name goes here">title to display</a> |
<a href="file://c:\mytext.doc">My
Text Word Document</a> |
| |
|
|
| A picture or photograph |
<img src="picture location"> |
<img src="c:\myphoto.jpg"> |
Formatting Text
Notepad text may be formatted using the same method of applying HTML tags to
selected words. Below are examples on how to do this:
| To make text |
Format |
| Bold |
<b>text to make bold goes
here</b> |
| |
|
| Italic |
<i>text to make italic goes here</i> |
| |
|
| Underlined |
<u>text to underline goes
here</u> |
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