This document provides a manual for searching data on a Conservation of Wild Relatives (CWR) portal. It describes the search page where users can explore all portal data objects using generic search filters. It explains how to add search filters, display columns, set hits per page, and navigate results. It also describes linking from search results to internal detail pages for individual records and specialized metadata pages for taxonomy and country level objects.

1. Home page
Search or browse
indexed CWR data Links and Keyword
related information search
on CWR resources
Information pages not directly part
on the portal contents of this portal
Return to the
Portal Home page
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2. Search Page
Search page for data objects. All portal data objects can be explored from the same
generic search framework.
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3. Search Filter
You may add a search filter for all the data
descriptors of a portal data object.
You have several alternatives for
the search operator. You may
select “case-insensitive contains”,
“not case-insensitive contains”,
“equal”, “not equal”, “larger
than”, “less than”, …
Your selected search filters are displayed
on the search page as illustrated here.
Add column
You may add any descriptors of the
data portal object to the list of search
results.
Simply select the column you want to
add in the select list and it will
automatically be added to the
displayed list.
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4. Hits per page
You may modify how many search result records
should be displayed per page.v
Navigation, previous, next
When there are more search results than the number of hits you
have selected to view per page; the previous next navigation
controls are displayed.
Navigation, letterbar
With the “Letterbar” you have a quick filter to limit the displayed
records by the first character. The “Letterbar” display filter
follows the order by column – see further below for the order by
feature.
The “Letterbar” display filter also allows you to filter by the first
two characters, three first characters, … etc.
Order by
The list of search results can be
ordered by any of the displayed
columns. Simply click the column
head title to order by this column.
Click again if you want to order by the
reverse order.
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5. Column tool tip
Most of the columns in the list of
search results will have a tool tip
description if you move the mouse
over the column head title.
Data value, link out
Many of the columns in the list of search
results will have a link out from the data
values to the relevant detail page of the
online source dataset.
[http://data.gbif.org/species/Celtis+caucasica]
Detail pages, internal link
You may select the “[Details]” internal link to display more
details on each record.
Some data objects describe or is linked to a taxonomy level
object, a country level object, an image object, a person or
institute object, …etc. These data objects will also have a
link to the specific metadata detail page of these special
portal data objects.
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6. Detail page
The detail pages will show all the defined descriptors for the
selected data object.
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7. Taxonomy level metadata page
The specialized
metadata detail pages
show you summary
metadata from
indexed external
datasets.
You find here the
Global Red List
status from IUCN,
the number of related
records in the GBIF
portal, the BGCI,
SINGER and
EURISCO.
You also find direct
links to other relevant
online resources to
search further for
more information.
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8. Country level metadata page
There are currently
taxonomy level and
country level
metadata pages.
Other similar
metadata pages could
perhaps be useful…
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