1.2.1 File
The first item on the main menu is the File menu (1.3). The File menu contains Exit which is used to exit the Ares application, as well as all the processing locations available. A check mark is placed next to the current processing location. In figure 1.3 the currently selected location is "Mann Library." You may at any time select another location which will cause the main panel, A, to refresh and display the items related to that location. |
Figure 1.3: The New option detail on the Main Window of the Ares system: |
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1.2.2 New
The New option (1.2) contains three options:
User: This menu item allows you to add new users to the system. Because of the way Ares interfaces with the CUL systems this option is not used.
Class: This option allows you to add a new class to the system, and associate it with a professor and semester. This menu option is for adding classes only, if a class needs to be edited please see the Edit menu in the next section.
System Alerts: This option allows you to add messages that will show up through the web interface. System Alerts can be made so that they only show to particular groups of users, individual users or everyone logging into the system. Great care should be taken if this option is used.
Figure 1.3: The New option detail on the Main Window of the Ares system: |
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1.2.3 Edit
Edit User: Allows you to search for and edit current users in the system.
Edit Class: Allows you to search for and edit the different aspects of classes in the system. You can also add items to a class from this menu, edit cross listings, or clone a class into a new one.
Edit Item: Allows you to open individual item's and edit that items details. From this window items can be placed in different queues, updated, or removed.
Clear Users: This option is not used due to the way Ares interfaces with CUL's system.
Figure 1.4: The Edit option detail on the Main Window of the Ares system: |
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1.2.4 Search Item
The Search Item button brings up an search window used to locate a individual item of groups
of items, figure.
1.2.5 Copyright
The copyright section is currently not used; therefore this menu will not be covered.
Figure 1.6: The Copyright option detail on the Main Window of the Ares system: |
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1.2.6 Item Processing
The Item Processing option lists the queues currently displayed in the main window (see Figure). Clicking on any of the queues listing in this menu will open them, (see 1.1
on page 3).