The structure and elements of a Registry entry

When a module is referenced in an EMu Registry entry, it is the module's back-end name that is used.

Module	Back-end / Table name
Accession Lots	eaccessionlots
Admin	eadmin
Audit Trails	eaudit
Bibliography	ebibliography
Catalogue	ecatalogue
Collection Events	ecollectionevents
Condition Checks	econdition
Conservation	econservation
Events	eevents
Exhibition Objects	eexhibitobjects
Exports	eexports
Field Help	efieldhelp
Gazetteer	egazetteer
Groups	egroups
Insurance	einsurance
Internal Movements	einternal
Loans	eloans
Locations	elocations
Lookup Lists	eluts
Movements	emovements
Multimedia	emultimedia
Narratives	enarratives
Operations	eoperations
Parties	eparties
Propagation	epropagation
Registry	eregistry
Rights	erights
Schedules	eschedule
Sites	esites
Statistics	estatistics
Task Templates	etemplate
Taxonomy	etaxonomy
Thesaurus	ethesaurus
Transactions	etransactions
Pest Events	etrapevents
Traps	etraps
Valuations	evaluations
Voucher Payments	evoucher

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Values can be displayed in the value field of a Registry entry either as individual items on separate lines or as a string separated by a delimiter.

The default delimiter in EMu is a semicolon: when individual values are entered line by line in a Registry entry, they display in the EMu back-end as a list of values separated by semicolons. For example, the value in the following entry:

will display in the back-end as:

duQuery;dvQuery;dvDisplay;dvInsert;dvEdit;duInsert;duEdit;duReplace

Note: It is possible to select a different delimiter (e.g. #) from the Separator drop list.

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A tab is a page in a module that displays a number of grouped fields. As we see below, the Parties module can have tabs for:

• Person
• Organization
• Address
• Roles
• Associations
• Biography
• Synonymy
• Notes
• Multimedia
• Security
• Admin
• Audit

Each tab has a unique name that consists of:

• A prefix of either All or Qry based on its use in Display (All) or Search (Qry) mode.
• A three-character identifier, usually comprising the first three characters of the label of the tab, e.g. Per for the Person tab in the Parties module.
• A suffix of Tab.

For example, when referencing the Person tab in an EMu Registry entry, its unique name is:

• AllPerTab in Display mode
• QryPerTab in Search mode

  Note: Rather than listing all tabs, a value of All can be used as a shortcut to display all of the available tabs in a module.

A tab's name is listed under Display Information when accessing the Field Level Help for a field on the tab. For example, when we access Field Level Help for Party Type on the Person tab of the Parties module in Search mode, we see that the Tab name is listed as QryPerTab:

Tab names are used in Registry entries to determine what tab options are available to a user. For instance, a range of Tabs Registry entries can determine the number, type and order of tabs that display in a module for each user.

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A module is a user-friendly interface to a database table: the eparties table for instance holds data entered and displayed in the Parties module. Each field in a module is associated with a column in the table corresponding to that module (e.g. eparties). The following image shows the Field Level Help for the Party Type fields on the Person tab of the Parties module in Search mode:

As you can see, the Party Type field has a column name of NamPartyType, which is found in the eparties module (database table).

Note: A field name is a label that displays in a module; a column name is the back-end name for a field. Typically, Registry entries reference column names (a back-end reference) not a field name (merely a label).

While there is only ever one instance of a column, its associated field may display more than once in the same module. For example, Party Type displays on both the Person tab and the Organization tab in the Parties module. If a Registry entry defines access to the column NamPartyType, it will be applied to both instances of the field Party Type.

The Column Access Registry entry is used to specify which privileges users and groups have to columns.

See also:

• Column Access Registry entry for details of what privileges can be assigned to users and groups.
• Field Level Help for details of how to find the back-end name for modules, tabs and fields.

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