How To Use DocDB to Access LPC Documents

How To Get To The LPC Documents

There are three similar means of arriving at pages to access LPC documents. In order of more specific to LPC topics first, and more general to all documents last, these are:

You can access specific LPC sub-topics:
You can access the LPC Topic documents at http://computing.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/docdb/private/ListByTopic?majorid=16.
You can access the Computing Division's Document Database page, either
- by choosing the Documents box at the top of the Computing Division main page at http://computing.fnal.gov/cd/;
- or by going directly to the CD Document Database page at http://computing.fnal.gov/cd/documents/ and choosing either Public (search and read only) or Private (create and modify as well) access.
This places you in a page dealing with documents on every topic in the CD database; you may wish to select by topic and choose LPC or one of its sub-topics.

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 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.

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