[OpenMadrigal-developers] Displaying catalog and header records in Madrigal

[William Rideout]

John,

As we discussed, I want to make it easy for a user to see the descriptive 
information in the catalog and header records from the experiment page. So for 
each file in the experiment, if it has a catalog or header record, I will add a 
link that reads:

# View desription of this experiment from the catalog and/or header records

just above the line:

# File Summary - Record summary, list of parameters in file

In order to know whether any given file has a catalog and/or header record, I 
plan to use the fields 6 and 7 from the fileTab.txt file, which are now 
described as:

# Size of Catalog Record File (0) (one->)
# Size of Header Record File (0) (one->)

Since these fields are not used in any version of Madrigal now in the field, I 
plan to change the descriptions to read:

# File contains at least one Catalog Record File (0 for no, 1 for yes)
# File contains at least one Header Record File (0 for no, 1 for yes)

The Madrigal installation will automatically reset these fields when Madrigal 
2.4 is installed.  Also, genExp will be modified to also set these fields correctly.

 From the user's point of view, they will see a page with a "Return to 
experiment  page" link at the top, and just the text from the catalog and header 
records without the prolog information.

Bill

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Bill Rideout
MIT Haystack Observatory
Email: brideout at haystack.mit.edu
Phone: 781 981-5624