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- <h3>Module Description:</h3>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <h3>Setup Instructions:</h3>
- <ol>
- <li><p><b>Set Permissions</b>: By default only the site administrator account has access to create, edit, delete
- or administer contacts. Navigate to the <?php print l('permissions page', 'admin/user/permissions')?> 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.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><b>Create a Contact</b>: An contact can be <?php print l('created', 'node/add/chado-contact')?>
- 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.</p></li>
-
- <li><p><b>Sync any Existing Contacts</b>: Before Contacts can be viewed on the website, they must first be <?php print l('created manually', 'node/add/chado-contact') ?>
- or if they already exist in the Chado database they <?php print l('must be synced', 'admin/tripal/tripal_contact/sync') ?> with Drupal.
- Once synced, contact pages will appear on the site.</p></li>
- </ol>
- <h3>Features of this Module:</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><p><b>Edit or Delete Contacts</b>: Contacts can be manually edited or deleted by navigating to the map page and clicking the "Edit" button.</p></li>
- <li><p><b>Simple Search Tool</b>: A <?php print l('simple search tool','chado/contacts') ?> is provided for
- finding contacts. This tool relies on Drupal Views. <a href="http://drupal.org/project/views">Drupal Views</a>
- which must be installed to see the search tool. Look for it in the navigation menu under the item
- "Search Data". </p></li>
- </ul>
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