The Tripal Contact module is an interface for the Chado Contact module which provides information about people or organizations. This module provides support for visualization of "contact" pages, editing and updating.
Set Permissions: By default only the site administrator account has access to create, edit, delete or administer contacts. Navigate to the and set the permissions under the 'tripal_contact' section as appropriate for your site. For a simple setup, allow anonymous users access to view content and create a special role for creating, editing and other administrative tasks.
Create a Contact: An contact can be manually in the same way any other data type. Contacts may also be created automatically by using the publication module publication importers. Alternatively, the Tripal bulk loader may also be used to load contacts.
Sync any Existing Contacts: Before Contacts can be viewed on the website, they must first be or if they already exist in the Chado database they with Drupal. Once synced, contact pages will appear on the site.
Edit or Delete Contacts: Contacts can be manually edited or deleted by navigating to the map page and clicking the "Edit" button.
Simple Search Tool: A is provided for finding contacts. This tool relies on Drupal Views. Drupal Views which must be installed to see the search tool. Look for it in the navigation menu under the item "Search Biological Data".