This
is the first page reached after a successful logon, and the page you go back to
when you click the “Home” link on the left.
The
left hand side of this, and every other page, contains some standard
information and links: -
1.
User id xxxxxx : your user name. TestGed in this case
2.
“Admin” (in red) if you have administrator rights, otherwise “Default” or some other membership
class.
3.
Logout. Click this and the system
will exit back to the Login page.
4.
Contact Record Owner. This link will appear
when you are looking at a particular record (it doesn’t appear on the home page
and search pages). An important aim of
the site is to help researchers to communicate with each other: you can click
this to email the owner of the record, and (sometimes) to find out a little bit
about them.
5.
Home …. This is called a
“breadcrumb”: it shows earlier pages that we can return to, with the last entry
being the current page. There is only
the single entry, “Home” in this case, but in other cases you might see (for
example) Home GDB1 GDB2 GDBUF. You can click on any entry in the list to
quickly take you to one of the earlier pages.
6.
Below this section of control information are a number of links to
various kinds of Help: -
7.
Help. This is help for the particular
page that you are on.
8.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
Go here if you have a question.
This will normally be the first place you go when you have a
problem. There are two sections, site background
and policies (who are we? what are the objectives of the site? who pays for it? etc), and How to questions (How do I link to duplicate
records? how do I correct somebody else’s error? etc)
9.
Guided tour is for first-time users.
It is recommended that everybody start with this.
10.
Complete Help. This links to the
Help system and allows you to navigate around, opening all the specific Help
pages without having to be on the particular page to which the Help relates.
11.
Privacy: This is a restatement of the
site’s policies on privacy, copyright, and other policies. You will have agreed to this when you
logged on for the first time.
12.
Development Status. NZGDB is a work
in progress: this keeps you in touch with the technical development program –
what we’ve just changed, what we are planning to change next, what’s on our
to-do list.
13.
Newsletters. About every month
a newsletter is emailed, describing changes to the site and other matters of
general interest. Click this link to
see past newsletters.
14.
Contact Us. We welcome all
feedback. . Click this to email the
developer (me): record errors, suggest
changes, etc. We love getting messages
about how great the site is, but we NEED to get messages about things you don’t
like.
In
the body of the document are links to the various functions. There are extra options available to
administrators. These are grouped by
major function
15.
“Genealogy Database”. This is
the major database of individuals. You
can
1.
Search it by name
2.
Re-open the last record that you were looking at
3.
Manage your own records, allowing others to view your private records
(records of living people)
16.
“Documents” is the next major section.
This provides the ability to store documents on the site (either
stand-alone, or you can link them to people in the GDB), and there are various
search options.
17.
“About You” allows you to change your password, registration details,
and profile information.