Contact is defined in
Katmandoo as any person who
performs tasks and/or has a role in trials.
Contact can be Site Manager (or
Current
Site Manager), Cooperator, Trial Manager (or
Current Trial Manager), District Agronomist, Laboratory Officer, Research
Scientist, Breeder, Biometrician (Analyst) or any who performs tasks which are stored
in Katmandoo. A contact can be both Site Manager as well as Trial Manager.
Contact Name
Contact name is generated on-the-fly by the system by combining [ Contact
LastName + space + Contact First Name + "@" + Location Acronym ].
While importng Site, Site Year, Trial, Trial Operation, Trial Unit (of Trial Design)
or Raw Data, the source file must have Contact Name column in order to find the
contact in the database.
Example:
Shrestha Avishesh@ORNG2
Where:
Last Name: Shrestha
First Name: Avishesh
Location Acronym (acronym of the location where the contact is located): ORNG2
Unknown Contact
The contact table has a record for
Unknown Contact
(
Last Name =
Unknown
and
First Name =
xxxx) which can be used when the contact information is not available.
The string values of the "UnknownContactLastName" and "UnknownContactFirstName"
keys in the
.config file must match the
Unknown Contact record in the contact table.
Please read important information
before making any changes in the config file.
<codeToDatabasseMappings>
<!-- An UNKNOWN contact name -->
<add key="UnknownContactLastName" value="UNKNOWN"
/>
<add key="UnknownContactFirstName" value="xxxx"
/>
</codeToDatabaseMappings>
The following information must exist before a contact can be added into the database.
- Location: The name and postcode of the location
(where the contact is located) must exist in the location table. If the location
information is not available, then
Unknown location should be used.
- Organisation: The organisation of the contact must
exist in the organisation table. If the organisation is
not avaialbe, then Unknown Organisation
should be used.
Note: Although Unknown Location and Unknown Organisation
can be used, it is preferable to add the Location and Organisation before adding
a new contact. This avoids changing at a later date.
The
Contact Navigator allows the user
to quickly find the contacts at a location. The nodes of the navigator are generated
using the Location Names and Postcodes which are retrieved from the database.
The nodes are sorted into location name order.
Important Note: Katmandoo automatically selects the node that was selected
last time (ie before closing the navigator or Katmadoo).
Use [
Task > Contact
> Manage Contact ] to activate the contact navigator.
- Click here for
an illustration of the navigator template.
Illustrative snapshot:
- Filter based search (in the snapshot, only the locations starting with "o" are
loaded to generate the
navigator nodes).
- The first location node (.All Location|.All)
of the navigator, when clicked all the contacts are displayed in the contact main form.
- Other location nodes are generated by concatenating location names and their postcode
separated by "|" (pipe).
- Contact Main Form displaying contacts at the selected
location.
To display contacts in the
Contact Main Form,
follow the steps below:
Illustrative snapshot:
- Contact Navigator with the loaded location nodes.
- Click here for
an illustration of the navigator template.
- Contact Main Form displaying the contacts at the selected location.
- Click here for
an illustration of the Main form template.
- Contact subform displays Virtual column information
of the selected contact in the Contact Main Form ("Shrestha Avishesh" in the snapshot).
to reload the Organisations from the database.