Documents Help - Whiteboard

Documents Help

Whiteboard Courseware System v1.0.3

Description

This module allows document and document directory addition, deletion, and modification. Documents may either uploaded files or links, and may be arranged in, and moved between, an arbitrarily-deep directory structure.

Permissions

Visitors: may view documents

Students: may view documents

Staff: full access

Administrators: full access

Miscellaneous Details

The course options allow documents to be displayed in either compact or announcement style.

To edit an existing document, staff and administrators should follow the document link. They may access the document itself from the edit-document page.

Uploaded documents are stored in a directory structure exactly matching the viewable directory structure.

Value Details

Documents

Item	Internal Name	Database Type	Form Type	Default	Minimum	Maximum	Required	Miscellaneous
Document ID	id	number [int not null auto_increment]	NA	none	0	none	yes
Link Text	name	string [varchar(80)]	long text line	none	0 characters	80 characters	no
Type	type	number [tinyint]	select box	0	0	1	yes
File	file	string	file upload box	none	0 characters	200 characters	no	Becomes document if type is 0 (File).
Link	link	string	long text line	none	0 characters	200 characters	no	Becomes document if type is 1 (Link).
Document	document	string [varchar(200) not null]	NA	none	1 character	200 characters	yes	Must not match Perl-style regular expression /\Aold\Z/.
Directory	dir	number [int]	select box	none	none	none	yes
NetID	netid	string [varchar(8) not null]	NA	none	1 character	8 characters	yes	May only contain alphanumeric [_A-Za-z] characters.
File Size	filesize	number [int]	NA	none	0	none	no	Empty values replaced with -1.
File Type	filetype	string [varchar(80)]	NA	none	0 characters	80 characters	no
Date Posted	date	timestamp [int]	NA	none	NA	NA	yes
Comment	comment	string [text]	text area	none	0 characters	none	no	Allows multiple lines. No more than 80 characters per line. May contain anchor (a), bold (b), emphasis/italics (em), and underline (u) HTML tags.
Deleted	deleted	number [tinyint]	NA	0	0	1	yes

Document Directories

Item	Internal Name	Database Type	Form Type	Default	Minimum	Maximum	Required	Miscellaneous
Directory ID	id	number [int not null auto_increment]	NA	none	0	none	yes
Directory Name	name	string [varchar(80) not null]	long text line	none	1 character	80 characters	yes	Must not match Perl-style regular expression /\Aold\Z/.
Parent Directory	parent	number [int]	select box	-1	none	none	yes
Deleted	deleted	number [tinyint]	NA	0	0	1	yes