Tutorials and Screencasts

Tutorials

Developer Tutorials

• See REST API Documentation

Screencasts

There were some short video tutorials. They are now deprecated. The tutorials showed scenarios that executed without any trouble and produced the expected output.
A trained mDIS user performed a task. The software was properly configured, and everything ran smoothly.

In this regard, we have provided brief video tutorials to demonstrate how the user interface of a properly configured mDIS is meant to be used.

(All videos removed intentionally)

Log in

(Video: "Logging In" - removed, UI has changed)

The user goes to a webpage that is available on the public internet or on a private network. The user enters their username and password and logs in.

Data Entry

What You Find on the Dashboard

View Data

How to work with input forms:

• Use the filter function to view datasets.

• Export some datasets, e.g., for printing.

Add/Edit Record, Duplicate

• Only Operators or Admins can do this.

  • How to edit a record:
  • Create a new record.

• Add a core - ...to be continued.

• Add a section - ...to be continued.

• Switch back and forth between core and section.

• Duplicate a record -

• Add a value to a value list -

Create Parent-Child Relationships

• e.g., add a core section to a selected core run.

Delete Items

• Delete Records
• Delete Forms
• Delete Forms and related tables
• Cascading Deletes (of Forms and Tables)

TODO: Happy Paths

• Refine documents, update links
• Create more screencasts/videos

Sad Path Scenarios

Scenarios showing some trouble and error conditions.

Exact diagnostics might be a power-user task. (Fixing is a DIS dev/admin task.)

• Virtualization Problems (BIOS Settings, enable CPU Virtualization Support)
• Guest VM boot-up problems
• Internet network problems
• Host/Guest interaction problems (networking, shared folders, web server, Host firewall)
• Insufficient permissions (User Rights, e.g., Viewer tries to edit data, make API requests)
• Database-asserted Constraint Violations (Primary-Foreign key, Cascading Deletes, Column constraints/defaults/unique constraints/NOT NULLS, row duplications)
• Rename Operations (of columns, of tables)
• Client-Side-asserted Input Validators (numeric/string data types, datetime issues, depth semantics...)
• Form/Tableset generation (= code generation issues, DB/File access permissions)
• Code editing issues (custom form field validators).