Drop down Menus

All pages in PIMS have a horizontal menu bar located below the PIMS logo and page title.
This includes a link to the PIMS Homepage 'Home' and the 'Log in' or 'Log out' link.   -it will include your user-name if you are logged in.

• Mouse-over the menu items in the navigation bar to see a drop-down menu of links to various PIMS functionalities.
    -a blue bar appears as you move your mouse-over the list of menu items.
  
  
• If you have logged in, clicking a link in the menu will direct you to the appropriate page or form.
  
  
• Click a menu item in the menu bar to be directed to a Functions page.
  The example shows the Target functions page.
  
  Functions pages can also be reached by selecting the first item in a menu.
  
  
  
• Functions pages contain the links which are listed in the appropriate menu, along with additional links to Create, Search and View related records.
  e.g. the Target functions page includes links to Target groups, Projects, Molecules, Species (Natural source), Database references and relevant Reference data.

Icons in the PIMS Homepage

After you have logged in some of the Home page Bricks may contain lists of links to PiMS records.
The different types of PiMS records are identified by icons.

As you use PiMS the History brick will also contain links to the PiMS records you have visited or created. ( -see History for more details)  as shown in the example below.


The History Brick contains the following:

• Demo PiMS -a link to a Person record
• 000001R1 -a link to a Sample record   -see also the Active samples older than 7 days Brick
• Plate (from order) 63103 -a link to a Plate experiment record
• SSPF Purification 1 -a link to a PiMS Protocol (Experiment template)
• SPOT Ttx 1576.N 62368 -a link to a Single experiment record
• Ttx 1576.N -a link to Construct details page   -see also the Constructs no progress for 7 days Brick
• 000849 -a link to a Target details record
• OPPF RH-80 Freezer -a link to a Location details record
• 000001R1 -a link to a Holder details record

Context menus

In addition to icons (see icons), links to PiMS records displayed on the Home page are labelled with a black triangle
This is a context menu icon.

Pass your mouse over this icon and you will see a short menu of actions you can perform with the record. To perform these actions, mouse down the list and click the menu item.

The example shows the context menu for a Target record in the History Brick


The Target context menu includes the following possible actions :

• View   -a link to the Target details page
• View diagram   -to see a diagramatic representation of the Target
• New construct...   -a link to the form for recording a New Construct for the Target
• Delete   -to delete the record if you have permission to do so

PiMS displays a navigation breadcrumb trail near the top of certain pages.

For example, there is a breadcrumb trail on PiMS Target and Construct pages to help you to navigate between Target and Construct details pages. The example shows the breadcrumb trail on a Construct details page

• To see the corresponding Target details page, click the Target: Target name link.
    -Target:sso1440 in the example
  
  
• To navigate to a list of all Targets in PiMS, click Targets
  
  

You will also find a breadcrumb trail on certain PiMS reports.

The example shows the breadcrumb trail on the Scheduled Blast Report.

• To see list of PiMS Target and Construct reports, click the Reports
  
  
• To navigate to a list of all Targets in PiMS, click Targets