Miscellaneous Woffle
You'll notice that theses pages are riddled with comments styled like this. They are intended to be temporary, notes on things that need doing, reminders to myself, asides, etc. This is still a work-in-progress.
- About this site
- Miscellaneous comments (definitely not complete)
- Some random helpful coments
- Miscellaneous comments (definitely not complete)
- Guidelines for Submissions
- Field usages, conventions in force, etc
- Bugs
- When to worry, or not, and what to do about it
Help on the various pages & forms
- the Tunes Front Page
- The "Tunes - Frontpage" link at the top of the page. A list of lists, plus various other options for logged-in users
- the Tune Search page
- The "Tunes - Search" link at the top of the page. A choice of forms that give you ways of selecting a list of tunes according to various criteria.
- Tune lists
- The links on the 2 pages above will take you to a list of tunes, with links to view each individual one, and, if you are logged in, to edit those that belong to you.
- Accounts. Logins, Registration, etc
- The login page (link on top right of each page) includes a link where you can register a new account if you don't already have one.
- File Upload
- Link from the Tunes Front Page, when you're logged in. Bulk input, submit a whole file full of (ABC) tunes into the database in one go.
- Bulk Edit
- Make the same change to all the tunes in a list.
- the Editor
- When you're logged in, edit your existing tunes (link from the tune lists) or add a new one (link from Tunes Front Page). Or use it as a 'scratchpad' even when not logged in (link from site front page)
- the View Tune page
- Link from the tunes lists; look at a tune.
- the Postponed Tunes List
- Link when appropriate from the Tunes Front Page. Tunes are not saved into the main database unless they meet a few basic simple requirements. If you upload a file of tunes containing some that "don't work", this is where you'll find them. You can also choose to Postpone a tune from the editor.
- Configuration
- The "Configure display" link at the top left of each page. You can fiddle with many aspects of the site's behaviour and presentation even if you're not logged in. If you are logged in there are even more options and you can save them for future use.
Other stuff to do with this site
- the Collections field
- This needs explaining
- Keeping things to yourself
- Private tunes & data-fields
- Your Data
- and what might happen to it
- Validation
- A tune undergoes some (elementary) error-checking before it's entered into the database.
- Commenting on other peoples' tunes
Misc. Techy Notes
- Browser settings
- A few things that look like problems but aren't, you might just need to set something in your browser
- Character sets
- Read this if your material uses accented characters
- Regular Expressions
ABC
- About ABC
- Okay, so this site runs on ABC. What's that ?
- Site ABC
- Comments on this site's ABC usages
- Abc fields
- A list giving the sordid details of the various ABC fields in use here