Default templates

Specify screen templates

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ICA-AtoM 1.0 beta ships with default screen layouts ("templates") for viewing and editing the database content. These layouts are based on ICA descriptive standards: ISAD(G), ISAAR(CPF) and ISDIAH.

ICA-AtoM, however, is built on underlying software (Qubit) that is designed to be flexible enough to support other archival descriptive standards, as well as other standards for other types of materials (such as library, museum and art gallery materials). Future releases of ICA-AtoM will include other templates based on some of these other standards -- for example, the Canadian Rules for Archival Description (RAD), the Brazilian Norma brasileira de decriçào arquivística (NOBRAD), Dublin Core metadata element set (DC), Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) and Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS).

Developers can also create their own customized templates and add them to their ICA-AtoM application. This involves, however, dealing directly with the application code and should only be undertaken by programmers familiar with Symfony and PHP.

• See developer documentation at the Qubit-toolkit website for adding customized templates to the application.

The site settings screen is where administrators specify which templates to use for which entities under which actions (e.g. edit an archival institution, list authority records). These procedures assume that you have more than one template for any given entity / action. This is not the case with the default version ICA-AtoM 1.0 beta; it ships with only the ICA templates. Use the following procedures only if a developer has created customized templates in addition to those shipped with ICA-AtoM 1.0 beta.

1. Click the admin > settings tab.

2. Open the default_template information area.

3. The name column shows the entity / action used in ICA-AtoM's software code. Note that names use the generic Qubit terms rather than the archives-specific terminology of ICA-AtoM.

• informationobject_edit: open an edit screen for data entry for a single information object (archival description).

• informationobject_show: open a view screen for read-only display of a single information object (archival description).

• informationobject_list: display a set of information objects (archival descriptions) on a list screen.

• actor_edit: open an edit screen for data entry for a single actor (authority record).

• actor_show: open a view screen for read-only display of a single actor (authority record).

• actor_list: display a set of actors (authority records) on a list screen.

• repository_edit: open an edit screen for data entry for a single repository (archival institution).

• repository_show: open a view screen for read-only display of a single repository (archival institution).

• repository_list: display a set of repositories (archival institutions) on a list screen.

4. The value column shows the name of the layout template invoked by an entity / action. ICA-AtoM ships with the default templates entered here.

5. To change templates, overwrite the name of the in the value column with the exact name of the template you want to use