New Catalog Data Entry

kri · Post by **kri** » October 16th, 2006, 9:47 pm

I need people who are willing to help devote some time to adding our completed projects to the new catalog/database that we've been working on. We're going to set up a temporary log in, and I would like to hand it out to those of you willing to help. I'm setting it up so those that want to help will take on groups of 10 completed projects (one or however many). This should be pretty easy, just take some time to add all the information.

Those of you that want to help, please respond to this thread and I'll contact you later when I have the details. I don't need to know how much you can do, as long as you can committ to at least ten.

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » October 16th, 2006, 10:46 pm

Me,

Peter

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » October 17th, 2006, 2:33 pm

I'd be willing to help out.

12makoto · Post by **12makoto** » October 17th, 2006, 2:38 pm

After this weekend, you can count me in.

Sean

Cloud Mountain · Post by **Cloud Mountain** » October 17th, 2006, 7:09 pm

Can help starting next Sun.

kri · Post by **kri** » October 17th, 2006, 8:03 pm

Thanks guys. Expect PMs in the next day or two.

aileron · Post by **aileron** » October 17th, 2006, 8:18 pm

Count me in

kri · Post by **kri** » October 17th, 2006, 8:35 pm

Hm...I should have noted in the PM, but it's easier to tell you all here. When entering the description of a work, make sure to view the source of the catalog page, and get the description including the HTML. Otherwise it won't display paragraphs, it will all just be one chunk of text. At the very least, make sure that <p> and </p> surround each paragraph.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » October 17th, 2006, 9:11 pm

kri wrote:Hm...I should have noted in the PM, but it's easier to tell you all here. When entering the description of a work, make sure to view the source of the catalog page, and get the description including the HTML. Otherwise it won't display paragraphs, it will all just be one chunk of text. At the very least, make sure that <p> and </p> surround each paragraph.

Gah. I didn't think of that. Will have to re-do my 10 descriptions tomorrow.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » October 18th, 2006, 11:22 am

kayray wrote: Gah. I didn't think of that. Will have to re-do my 10 descriptions tomorrow.

Heh... me either... oops...

Post by **ezwa** » October 18th, 2006, 12:25 pm

kri wrote:... When entering the description of a work, make sure to view the source of the catalog page, and get the description including the HTML. ...

Aaaaaaaaargh! Why did I not read this 3 hours ago!

gypsygirl · Post by **gypsygirl** » October 18th, 2006, 12:33 pm

I'll help.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » October 18th, 2006, 12:45 pm

A couple of tips:

Do a browser find for each project before you start entering data, to make sure it's not already there. (if it IS there, double-check to see that all data is entered correctly. It may have been only partially entered in the testing phase))

To get nice-looking descriptions, "view source" on the catalog page, then do a browser find for "blockquote". Select everything from after <blockquote> to before </blockquote> and paste all that into your project's description field.

Thank you for helping!

kri · Post by **kri** » October 18th, 2006, 1:06 pm

kayray wrote:A couple of tips:

Do a browser find for each project before you start entering data, to make sure it's not already there. (if it IS there, double-check to see that all data is entered correctly. It may have been only partially entered in the testing phase))

To get nice-looking descriptions, "view source" on the catalog page, then do a browser find for "blockquote". Select everything from <blockquote> to </blockquote> and paste all that into your project's description field. (including the <blockquote> tags makes a nice margin around the description)

Thank you for helping!

The blockquotes are unnecessary. They can be added in later when the description is used. Do not put in the blockquotes. Just the paragraph tags around each paragraph (one beginning and one ending around each).

kayray · Post by **kayray** » October 18th, 2006, 1:09 pm

Oh, ok. But they make the admin.php look a lot prettier :)

(feel free to edit out my bad advice ;-)