Editing Options of Drop-Down Menus

The Taxonomic Editor gives you the option to edit existing options of some drop-down boxes, as well as selecting/deselecting and the creation of new options as described in the above sections. Editing options allows you to change the name of the feature, abbreviation, and to add a description. This may be useful if your datasets has several users and you wish to provide information so that the data fields are used in a standardised way.

Options found in the following menus can be edited:

• Preferences > Description > Features for example "common name", "distribution" and "ecology"
• Preferences > Taxonomic > Extension Types

An example of how to edit a Feature of the Description menu is given below. For more information on the Descriptive element of the Taxonomic Editor see section about Adding Descriptive Data to Taxon.

1. Open the Preferences pop-up box (Toolbar > Window menu > Preferences option).
2. Navigate to the element you wish to change by expanding the Description or Taxonomic menus found in the Taxonomic Editor menu:

   

3. Click on the data field you would like to edit so that it is highlighted. The example shown below is editing the Conservation feature.

   

4. Click the Edit button:

   

   The "Edit Feature" pop-up box will open.

5. Edit the feature as desired. An example is given below:

   Original Feature details

   Edited Feature details

6. Click the Finish button:

   

If you have edited the name of the Feature this will be immediately visible in the Features list: