| Name: |
Site Administrator Interface |
| Defining Qualities: |
- Database Design (outlined separately in section 2.3.1.)
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- Add data to a given table; the Add Data interface is produced from the blueprint of the database
- Edit data in a given table
- Delete data in a given table
- View data in a given table
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- User information is handled like any other data; it resides in a table and can be manipulated as outlined in the previous four points
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- Toggle fields on/off for search from front-end interface; all fields can participate in Search
- Change order of search fields and search results for front-end interface
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- User Interface Manipulation (outlined separately in sections 2.3.2.)
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Behaviors:
(Algorithms) |
Add data to table |
- User selects which table to add data to
- Construct a form-entry page reflecting the current table design (including the relations to other tables)
- Upon submission, add data to table
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| Edit data in table |
- User selects which table to edit data from
- User selects which item to edit
- Construct a form-entry page reflecting the current table design (including the relations to other tables)
- Place current values of the selected item into the form
- Upon submission, data is updated
- If data was referenced by rows in other tables, those rows are updated as well
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| Delete data from table |
- User selects which table to delete from
- User selects one (or several items to delete)
- Items are removed from table
- If data was referenced by rows in other tables, those rows are updated by removing the link to this table
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| View data in table |
- Prints out table in a table-form, X many rows at a time
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| User information |
- User information is handled like any other table
- A user's permissions to all the distinct functions of the system can be toggled on/off
- The admin user's permissions cannot be changed; they comprise all by default
- All user passwords can be changed
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| Search Options |
- Any given field in any given table can be toggled on/off for searching purposes from the front end
- The order of how the search fields appear can be changed in a select box with 'MOVE UP' and 'MOVE DN' functions
- The order of how results appear in the front end can be changed in a similar fashion
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