Building a Description Tree by adding Descriptive Data Types

A description tree must first be created for the taxon; see the section above.

1. Point the mouse cursor at the entry in the Descriptive panel.

2. Press the right-hand mouse button; a menu will appear.

3. Point the mouse cursor at the “New” option in the menu; a drop-down menu of all available descriptive data types will be shown:

4. Click on the descriptive data type that you wish to enter for the taxon, for example “Common Name”; the data type will be added to the Description Tree and its specific data entry box will be activated in the Details panel:

A customised Descriptive Tree consisting of different description types can be created in this way. As stated previously the format of the types of descriptive data varies; for some the data is input as free text but for others data must be chosen from options given in a drop-down menu. Therefore examples of how to input certain descriptive data types will be given in the following sections, rather than showing how to input data for each data type.