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Catalog Description Form Help
Use the catalog description (CD) form to manage the MAST CD files and create initial help files for new missions. The form can be used for any of the following purposes:
- Modify the field parameters of the CD files (e.g., descriptions, data types, default status, and column headings),
- add new fields to CD files,
- Create new quickcol files,
- Create new column_help files
http://archdev.stsci.edu:8080/catalog.php?catalog=$mission
where $mission is the mission name, or more specifically, the name of the CD xml file. For example, for the KIC,
http://archdev.stsci.edu:8080/catalog.php?catalog=kepler_input_catalog
The available commands are listed below in more detail, followed by explanations of the displayed table columns.
- Edit
- The edit command creates a new xml file based on the parameter values
from the CD form.
Clicking the edit button creates a new xml files in the csv subdirectory
with the name $mission_tmp.xml. The user must copy this file into $mission.xml
before the changes are implemented.
Any number of parameters can be modified before saving the results in the
$mission_tmp.xml file. Note however that if the form is redisplayed it
will show the parameters from the $mission.xml file so changes will not
be displayed until the tmp file is copied iver the standard xml file.
- Create Quickcol File
- Clicking this button creates a quickcol.content file in the csv directory
based on the vaules extracted from the CD form. AS with the "edit" command,
the changes will not be implemented until the quickcol.content file from the
csv file is copied over the standard file (i.e., usually the quickcol.content file
in /$mission/help/).
- Restore Original Values
- This command will replace all current form element values with those from the
original $mission.xml file.
- Reset
- This command will restore previous form element values.
- Create new Columns File
- This command will create a new columns.content file in the
csv directory. As with the "edit" command,
the changes will not be implemented until this file
is copied over the standard file (i.e., usually the
columns.content file in /$mission/help/).
- Column Label
- Title used to describe database table field on search forms.
The actual field name used in the database table is stored in
the "column name" column.
- Description
- A short description of the field.
- Examples/Valid Values
- The range or list of valid values for a particular field.
- UCD
- The Unified Common Descriptor (UCD) for the particular field.
- Units
- The units used for the given field values.
- Data Type
- The data types defined for the MAST search interface.
Note MAST defines more data types than the VO, but entering
Qual Type will also set the appropriate VO data type within the
XML file.
- Queryable
- Specifies whether queries can be executed on this field.
- Default
- Specifies which fields are to be displayed by default on the
MAST search resaults page.
- Column Name
- The actual name of the field as specified in the database table.
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