Edit details#

The Edit details screen changes a measurement’s own fields, such as its name, its image, its location and the values its type records. Descriptions, keywords, dates and identifiers have screens of their own. The same screen exists for every measurement type, and each type decides which fields it offers.

How to reach it#

Open the measurement’s page, choose Manage, then Edit details. The address is /measurement/ followed by the measurement’s portal ID and /edit/.

You see the entry when you may change the measurement. See How access to a record is decided for who that is, and for what you are told when you ask for the screen without that right.

The form#

The form is the one the measurement’s type is registered with, less the fields that would move the measurement. A measurement always stays in its dataset and stays on its sample, so neither the dataset field nor the sample field is offered.

The fields every measurement has are listed here. A type can leave any of them out, and it adds its own fields after them, such as a value and its uncertainty. This is where a portal’s own fields appear.

Field

What it holds

name

The measurement’s name. A measurement with no name is shown by its portal ID

image

A picture of the measurement

Local ID

The creator’s own identifier for the measurement within its dataset

location

Where the measurement was made, as a point in WGS 84, with its elevation and uncertainty

The elevation is in metres above mean sea level, and a negative number is below it. The uncertainty is the distance in metres from the location within which the true place lies. Both need a location. A measurement with no location of its own is shown at its sample’s location.

Each field is labelled and shows the help text its type gives it. A field that is refused shows what is wrong beside it, and nothing is saved.

The buttons#

The screen ends with Save & continue and Save & continue editing. Both save the form and take you to the measurement’s page, which shows “Saved” followed by the measurement’s name, or its portal ID when it has none.

What you can do here#