Documentation
Specify Reference and Help Documents
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Mature!
- Complete Specify Embedded Help Text Formatted for Printing (PDF, 3.7 MB, 394 pp)
- Hardware/Software Requirements (PDF)
- MySQL Options for Institutions
- Setting Up Specify to Use a Networked MySQL Server (PDF)
- Setting Up Specify to use a Shared Workstation as a Database Server (PDF)
- Specify Setup Wizard Documentation (PDF)
- Using the Specify Web Portal (PDF)
- Using the Specify Command Line Data Export Program (PDF)
- Specify Attachment/Asset Server Installation Notes and Source Code (link to GitHub)
- Specify 6 Synonym Cleanup Tool (PDF)
- Installing Specify in Portuguese (PDF)
- How to restore a SpecifyEZDB database from a dump file (PDF)
- Using special Scriptlet functions with Labels and Reports (PDF)
- Specify 6 Model for Institution Organization (PDF)
- Specify 6 Collection Database Architecture, Organizational Model, and User Account Access to Multiple Collections (PDF)
- Field Formatting and Auto-Numbering (PDF)
- Importing External Data into Specify 6 (PDF)
- Changing the default MySQL engine to InnoDB (PDF)
- Guidelines for Cleaning Specify 5 data before conversion into Specify 6 (PDF)
Specify 6 Video Tutorials
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- Specify HelpCast Videos (streaming, 20-30 minutes, capabilities, features and modules, http://desktopconnect.ku.edu/specify)
- Specify HelpSnip Videos (streaming, 1-4 minutes, short and sweet task examples – created on demand, ask us for one!)
Mature!
- Specify 6 YouTube Channel
- Specify 6 Interface Overview (youtube)
- Editing System Pick Lists in Specify 6 (youtube)
- Moving and Synonymizing nodes in a Tree in Specify 6. (youtube)
- Creating a Mapping in the WorkBench (youtube)
- Mapping text and number fields and renaming them in the WorkBench (youtube)
- Form Editing in the WorkBench (youtube)
- Tools and tips for entering data in a form in the WorkBench (youtube)
- Tools and tips for entering data in a grid in the WorkBench (youtube)