Directions for Adding a Missed Event

If an event is missed, for instance a CTD is deployed, but the recovery does not get entered as an event. If you know the date, time, and position for the event missed (e.g. from the bridge log), you can follow the instructions below to insert that event.

Go to the configuration file by opening the following URL on the netbook:

http://127.0.0.1:8090/[CRUISEID]-SE/?cmd=ecfmhome

Click Edit cfg file and comment out the second instance of Locked Attributes with a # sign. This is below the DISPLAY: ENTRY line:

This is what it should look like normally:

# === DISPLAY: Entry ===
# Note: directives related to how attributes are configured on the data entry page 
# Note: unlock these temporarily if it is necessary to edit the fields
# Note: locked Latitude, Longitude, and Seafloor
##Locked Attributes = Revisions, Cruise, Event, R2R_Event, dateTimeUTC, GPS_Time, Latitude,  Longitude, Seafloor
# Note: unlocked Latitude, Longitude, and Seafloor
Locked Attributes = Revisions, Cruise, Event, R2R_Event, dateTimeUTC, GPS_Time, dateTime8601
Required Attributes = Author, Instrument, Action

To comment out the Locked Attributes, add a # sign in front of the line.

After commenting out the line the section should look like the following.

# === DISPLAY: Entry ===
# Note: directives related to how attributes are configured on the data entry page 
# Note: unlock these temporarily if it is necessary to edit the fields
# Note: locked Latitude, Longitude, and Seafloor
##Locked Attributes = Revisions, Cruise, Event, R2R_Event, dateTimeUTC, GPS_Time, Latitude,  Longitude, Seafloor
# Note: unlocked Latitude, Longitude, and Seafloor
#Locked Attributes = Revisions, Cruise, Event, R2R_Event, dateTimeUTC, GPS_Time, dateTime8601
Required Attributes = Author, Instrument, Action

After adding the # sign (this unlocks those attributes, thus permitting changes to those fields), click Save and then Show Eventlog. You can now click on the CTD deployed event and then click Duplicate (or duplicate some other appropriate event), and you should now be able to edit all the entries. You will need to know approximate time of the recovery and can find the gps data in the ship's data or check the bridge log. Be certain to use time in UTC.

Create an event using the recovery time, YYYYMMDD.hhmm.###

The ### starts with 001 for the first event at that time. For example, an event at 13:13 UTC on 25 July 2012 would look like: 20120725.1335.001

Once the event is entered and all the fields have been changed appropriately (most notably all the time-based entries), go back to the configuration file:

http://127.0.0.1:8090/[CRUISEID]-SE/?cmd=ecfmhome

and remove the # sign from the second Locked Attributes (this locks and protects those fields again). Then click
Save
.