Turtle Research and Monitoring Database System (TREDS) User Manual
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Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme Turtle Research and Monitoring Database System (TREDS) User Manual By Anne Patricia Trevor 3 December 2009 © Copyright Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme 2010 All rights for commercial / for profit reproduction or translation, in any form, reserved. SPREP authorises the partial reproduction or translation of this material for scientific, educational or research purposes, provided SPREP and the source document are properly acknowledged. Permission to reproduce the document and/or translate in whole, in any form, whether for commercial / for profit or non-profit purposes, must be requested in writing. Original SPREP artwork may not be altered or separately published without permission. Original text: English SPREP Library/IRC Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Trevor, Anne Patricia Turtle Research and Monitoring Database System (TREDS) : user manual / Anne Patricia Trevor. – Apia. Samoa : SPREP, 2010. 157 p. ; 29 cm ISBN: 978-982-04-0397-0 1. Sea turtles – Teaching – Aids and devices – Oceania. 2. Sea Turtles – Studying and teaching – Oceania. 3. Sea turtles – Resource education – Oceania. 4. Environmental education – Special education literature – Oceania. I. Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC). II. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). III. Title 597.92 This project is financially supported by the Western Pacific regional Fishery Management Council, Honolulu, USA Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program PO Box 240, Apia, Samoa Tel: +685 21929 Fax: +685 20231 Email: [email protected] http://www.sprep.org/ ii Contents Table of Figures.....................................................................................................................................................vi 1 Introduction...................................................................................................................0B .................................1 2 Initial1B download and installation of TREDS ........................................................................................2 2.1 Download14B TREDS from SPREP website .............................................................................................2 2.2 Running15B TREDS setup........................................................................................................................3 2.2.1 Running81B setup file ....................................................................................................................................3 2.2.2 User82B information......................................................................................................................................3 2.2.3 Setup83B type................................................................................................................................................4 2.2.4 Begin84B installation .....................................................................................................................................4 2.2.5 Running85B Setup Wizard .............................................................................................................................5 2.3 Start16B up TREDS from ‘program files’ .................................................................................................5 3 Registering2B and creating your TREDS database ................................................................................6 3.1 17B Master TREDS database...................................................................................................................6 3.1.1 Register86B as a ‘master database’...............................................................................................................6 3.1.2 Enter87B organisation information for a Master Database...........................................................................7 3.1.3 Complete8 registration for a master database..........................................................................................8 3.1.4 Creating89B a TREDS Master database..........................................................................................................8 3.1.5 Select90B TREDS master database location ..................................................................................................9 3.1.6 Run91B new master database setup ...........................................................................................................10 3.2 Remote18B TREDS Database ................................................................................................................10 3.2.1 Registering92B TREDS as a remote database ..............................................................................................10 3.2.2 Enter93B organisation information for a remote database ........................................................................11 3.2.3 Complete94B registration for a remote database .......................................................................................11 3.2.4 Creating95B a new TREDS Remote database...............................................................................................12 3.2.5 Locate96B TREDS remote database exchange file.......................................................................................12 3.2.6 Run97B new Remote database setup..........................................................................................................14 3.3 Log19B on to TREDS ..............................................................................................................................15 3.4 Connect20B to an existing TREDS database..........................................................................................15 3.5 TREDS21B Main Menu ..........................................................................................................................16 4 Considerations3B before data entry ........................................................................................................ 17 4.1 User2B Administration........................................................................................................................17 4.2 Projects23B and fieldwork ....................................................................................................................17 4.3 Tag24B inventory ..................................................................................................................................17 iii 4.4 Localities25B and sites .......................................................................................................................... 17 4.5 Tooltips.......................................................................................................................26B .....................17 5 Projects,4B Fieldwork and Tag Inventory ............................................................................................. 18 5.1 Project........................................................................................................................27B .....................18 5.2 28B Fieldwork........................................................................................................................................19 5.2.1 98B Fieldwork component..........................................................................................................................19 5.2.2 9B Fieldwork/Season Details screen..........................................................................................................20 5.3 Tag29B Inventory ..................................................................................................................................21 5.3.1 10B Tag inventory component.....................................................................................................................21 5.3.2 Tag10B Inventory Details screen..................................................................................................................22 6 Tag5B register.................................................................................................................................................. 24 6.1 Tag30B details .......................................................................................................................................25 6.1.1 Editing102B a tag detail record......................................................................................................................25 7 Administration6B ........................................................................................................................................... 27 7.1 Main31B Administration Screen ...........................................................................................................27 7.2 User32B Administration........................................................................................................................28 7.3 Create3B a new, empty TREDS database............................................................................................29 7.4 Re34B ‐link this database to a different data file...................................................................................30 7.5 Export35B a subset of the database .....................................................................................................30 7.5.1 Select103B export type..................................................................................................................................30