How To Use DocDB to Access LPC Documents
How To Get To The LPC Documents
Links to the LPC docdb web sites are given below. You will be asked for a user
name and a password: We are setting up a system for this, but if you need these,
please contact Sarah Eno
In each case, there are then lists of documents, search facilities, and so forth.
How To Add a Document to the LPC DocDB
- Go to the CD Document Database page at http://computing.fnal.gov/cd/documents/
and choose Private access.
- If you don't have an existing session logged in to the DocDB, you will be
asked for a username and password. The username is lpc. Please ask
a fellow LPC member to find out the password, or contact Sarah
Eno, Hans Wenzel or Mark Fischler.
- Choose Create or Change documents or metadata, and select Create
a New document. The number of files field is optional, but if the document
consists of more than three files, it will be more convenient later if you
supply that count now.
- Fill in the information about the new document. Make sure to select one of
the LPC topics. The following tips might be useful when filling in the
Requester and Authors:
- You may skip to a later part of the alphabet by typing any initial after
clicking some arbitrary name in the list.
- Exactly one requester must be chosen (in many cases, the requester is
the same person as the author).
- In the case of authors, you may choose multiple authors by doing
ctrl-click on each to select (or to un-select) that name.
- Please contact Hans Wenzel or Mark Fischler if you wish to be on the authors
list and are not.
- When you submit the document, a page will appear showing the assigned
document number. This is useful for future modifications.
How To Modify a Document in the LPC DocDB
- Go to the CD Document Database page at http://computing.fnal.gov/cd/documents/
and choose Private access.
- If you don't have an existing session logged in to the DocDB, you will be
asked for a username and password.
- Choose Update and supply the document number.
- If you upload any replacement file, the version number will change.
Modifying the "metadata" (access restrictions, abstract, keywords, etc.) will
leave the version number intact.
The DocDB product is fairly intuitive and contains ample help facilities.