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USER'S GUIDE-Interface description

Introduction

When you start the application, the following screen will appear:

Présentation de l'interface

The screen is composed of four different areas: the menu bar, the toolbar, the tabbed pages, and the lower bar.
 

Menu bar
The menu bar has three items: File, Data, and Help. The File menu contains only the item Quit. You may also quit the application by clicking the upper right corner of the window. The Data menu contains the items Reset and Submit. The Help menu allows access to on-line help (the document you are currently reading). All the functions except Quit are also available on the toolbar just beneath the menu bar. See below for an explanation of the buttons.
 
Tool bar
Bouton d'ouverture de la fenêtre de soumission Opens the window to submit a query. This button is used after having completed a query by filling in the appropriate sections on the tabbed pages.
Bouton pour désactiver les critères courants Deselects all of the current search criteria and resets the application to its initial setting, that is, as it was when the application was opened.
Bouton pour le démarrage de l'aide en ligne Starts the on-line help (this file).

 
Tabbed pages
The main window of the application is made up of seven different tabbed pages: Spatial references, Temporal references, Depths, Missions, Areas, Data types, and Keywords. You may add information to each of these pages to define what data you want to retrieve. The information provided on each page is combined following logical rules (the Boolean operators "AND" or "OR") so that as the query is built it becomes more and more refined. The different lines of information on a given page are related to each other by "OR"; the information from the different pages are combined together with "AND." If none of the fields are filled out (the initial condition), all the data files in the system are selected. This situation is not allowed, however; query returns are limited to 500 files.
 
Lower bar
The lower bar shows the user how many files fulfill the current query specifications. Therefore, with no criteria specified, as is the case when the application is started, the number seen in the lower right corner represents the number of files archived in the system. You will see that the number decreases as you refine your query.

Reviewed: 2008-01-09 Top of Page