Help for Finders
Common Name Finder (List Option)
CONTENTS
Top Screen Area / Blue Menu Bar (more details about the Top Screen Area)
- Back - move back to previously viewed screens
- Forward - move forward to
previously viewed screens
- Home - display the TIARA home page
- Help - display a context-sensitive
help page
- Restart - display the TIARA home page and reset
internal settings to their "start up" state
Left Screen Area / Left Control Panel (more details about the Left Screen Area)
- Finders group - use a finder to locate the home page of
a different taxon
- Settings group - change the
settings for the active screen
Main-Display Screen Area
Overview
The Main-Display Area of
the Common Name Finder (List Option) displays user-selectable controls
, taxon lists and associated header and
footer information. With this Finder you can locate taxa of interest by scanning
alphabetically arranged lists of TIARA system "common name" data. Each taxon list contains links directly to the Taxon Home Pages of the taxa it displays.
Taxon List Header Lines
- Finder name and option
- List criteria for the active taxon list
- List item (line) count for the active taxon
list
User-selectable Controls
- "Select a finder option:" combo box - Make a choice from the "Select
a finder option:" combo box to switch among the available options of
the Common Name Finder. Selecting an option from the combo box
automatically and immediately loads the chosen Finder option.
- [AlphabetLine] text links - Click on a letter-link in the "Alphabet
Line" to display a taxon list of common names beginning with that
letter of the alphabet. Click on the "all" link to display a taxon
list of all common names in the TIARA system (this is a long list, so it may
load slowly; use it sparingly). Clicking on a link automatically and
immediately loads the selected taxon list.
- [TaxonName] taxon home
page icon (
) - Click on a yellow Taxon Home Page Icon to
link directly to the Home Page of the named taxon (or associated higher ranked)
that the icon immediately follows. The icon images returned in taxon lists
may be slow to load if they are particularly numerous, if the server is
busy, or if your connection is slow. However, if the adjacent text allows you
to identify the positions where the icons will load, these positions are
generally clickable even if the icon is not visible. Thus, after a little practice, you may be able to
proceed to the desired Taxon Page without having to wait for
the icons to load.
- "Top" - Click on the Top link (located below the taxon list) to jump to the top of the Main-Display Screen Area.
- Scroll Bars - Depending upon your monitor screen size
and the length of the active taxon list, you may see scroll bars on
the right and/or bottom of the Main-Display Area. Use the scroll bars to move
the Main-Display Area vertically and/or horizontally to better view its
contents.
More Information . . .