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Morpho User Guide
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After you have opened Morpho and created a profile, you will see the "Welcome to Morpho!" screen.
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Notice that there are three panels on the left side of the screen - the "Current Profile" panel at the top, the "Network Status" panel in the middle, and the "Work with your data..." panel at the bottom. Each of these is described below.
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Current Profile Panel
The top of the panel shows the current profile setting. You can use the drop-down list to change profiles, or you can click on the link to create a new profile.
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Network Status Panel
The top of the panel shows your login status for the KNB. If your status is "NOT Logged In", you can type your password in the "Password" field and click the "Login" button to login to the KNB network. You will be logged in with the username associated with the current profile, shown in the "Current Profile" panel. Note that this KNB username is not necessarily the same as your profile name. Your KNB username is the name appearing after the "uid=" just below the title bar of the "Current Profile" panel. After you are logged in, you will see the screen on the right. Clicking on the "Logout from network" link will log you out of the KNB network.
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Work with your data... Panel
This panel contains links which allow you to:
A description of what each of these links does is provided later in this guide (click on the links above to skip to one of these sections).
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The menus at the top of each Morpho screen allow you to access all the operations that are available in Morpho.
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Items will sometimes appear grayed out, meaning these are not available for use with the current data package. For example, "copy" and "cut" will be disabled on the "Edit" menu if you do not currently have any item selected. It is a good idea to take a moment and familiarize yourself with the contents of each of the menus.
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File menu
Under this menu, you'll find prompts (pictured below) for creating a new data package, opening an existing data package, logging in and out of the KNB network, creating a new user profile, saving a data package, deleting a data package, printing documentation, setting preferences, exiting Morpho, and other options.
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Edit menu
In this menu (pictured below), you can cut, copy or paste items, as well as reverse changes you have made to a data table or to a set of data tables.
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Search menu
Under this menu (pictured below), you have the options of searching for data packages, saving a search for future use, refining a search by changing search parameters, or refreshing the current search.
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Documentation menu This menu, pictured below, allows you to add, delete, or change a variety of different types of documentation (metadata) for your data package. You may add or edit general documentation for the data package, or more specifically add or edit information on the research project and usage rights related to the data package, as well as the geographic, taxonomic, and temporal coverage of the data.
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Data menu
This menu (below) is where you will find tools that allow you to import a data object (such as a table or an image), or create a data table. Also, you may edit and manipulate the data in a data table using commands found under this menu. Finally, you may also add or edit the documentation for your data columns under this menu.
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Window menu
Under this menu you can view different windows that are open in Morpho.
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Help menu This is where you can access the Morpho User Guide (which is what you are now reading), which contains help on Morpho features. There is also an "About..." item where you can read general information about Morpho. The "Intro to Metadata..." document explains what metadata is, why it is important, some of the challenges associated with creating it, and what Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is and how it is used.
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The toolbar contains shortcut buttons to the more commonly-used commands found in the menus. The purpose of each button is described below. If you ever forget what a button is for, simply place your mouse cursor over the button and a small pop-up reminder will display the purpose of the button.
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The status bar at the bottom of the Morpho window contains information about the current status of various Morpho settings and parameters. For example, when search results are displayed, the number of "hits" is shown on the left end of the status bar.
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The three icons located at the right end of the status bar indicate
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following:
*Note that Morpho does not currently support SSL connections.
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Read an Introduction to Data Packages on the next screen to learn more about what data packages are, and what they look like.
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