Netscape -- A software package used to view "documents" on the World Wide Web.
URL -- This stands for the Uniform Resource Locator. It is an address for homepages on the World Wide Web. For example, the URL of the PCCP Asset Guide is http://www.rollanet.org/~ssdb.
RollaNet -- This is the Internet Service Provider (ISP) on which the PCCP Asset Guide resides. Its URL is http://www.rollanet.org.
Scrolling -- There are two ways you may scroll or move through a document in Netscape: horizontally and vertically. If a document is too big to be displayed in a Netscape window, a bar will be displayed on the right hand of the screen if the document is too long, and/or along the bottom if the document is too wide. To scroll up and down the document, you just point and click and hold the mouse pointer on the small grey square on the bar. You can then drag this up and down the bar to scroll the document up and down. Another way to move up and down is to use the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys. Or you can just click on the boxes on either end of the bar that have triangles. This will take you slowly through the document. The left and right scroll operate in the same manner, but you go left and right instead of up and down. If you are unable to page up or down, use the scroll bar on the right side of the screen.
There are several buttons with the Netscape software package necessary to navigate through the PCCP Asset Guide. Along the top of the Netscape window are several buttons each with an icon. These buttons are listed below along with their function.
To find organizations offering a particular type of service, just click on a button to the left of the category name. You may only select one service category at a time. If the category you want is not listed, click on the button next to the word "Other" at the end of the table and then type in the word for which you would like to search. Searches that contain "Other" will search the "Services Provided" fields associated with each organization in the database. If that word is used in the services field, that organization will be returned as a "hit."
The next major field is the organization name field. You can type part of a name of an organization here. Results returned will be all organizations that contain the word you typed into the organization name field. Searching by acronyms is not possible.
You may start your search at this time by pointing and clicking on the "Begin Search" button. If you would like to narrow the search down to include organizations that serve a certain age, sex, or pay option, scroll down to the next table. You may select several ages, and either or both sexes, and several pay options. The buttons associated with these fields will be shaded when selected.
When you have the categories you want as part of your search, click on the "Begin Search" button to start the search for organizations that meet your criteria. The "Reset the Selections" button will clear all selections that you had made previously so you can start a new search.
After you press the "Begin Search" button the database will be searched. This may take as long as two to three minutes, but is usually quick when searching just the categories. Searches using the age, sex, and payment options fields will take longer. The results of the database search will then appear. At the top of the screen will be a note on the number of hits your search made. If there were no hits, a message will be displayed telling you to widen your search. A note on the number of hits will be listed followed by a list of all the organizations that meet your criteria. You may point and click on one of these to go to see more information or you may scroll down to see them. Each organization may include the following.
Some things of importance when Adding and/or Modifying.
1. Information should not be entered using all capital letters. This is necessary since the system will be searching for a combination of upper and lowercase letters. Also, all uppercase letters tend to be difficult to read.
2. The services field is all on one line. If you would like to change it, move the cursor with the right and left arrow buttons or scroll horizontally using the scroll button on the bottom. Then you may type in the information you would like to modify.
3. Because of a system limitation, the services field cannot be longer then 512 characters (this means letters and spaces). This means that service fields should be short and to the point. If theservices field is too long, the system will return an error message telling you that the field is too long. You can go back and shorten the field by pressing the back button. The system will display the information you just added or modified after you press the "Modify Organization" button so you can see if you entered it correctly. Be sure to check for spelling mistakes.
3. Business Hours should be formatted so they are easily readable.
4. The Ages served can go from zero up to any number, but we suggest an upper limit of 100.
A list of organizations that match your selections will be returned in a list. Select the one you want to delete and press the "Delete Organization" button. The system will return a screen asking if you are sure you would like to delete that organization. If you are sure, then press the "Delete Organization" button. Otherwise, you may back out by clicking the "Back" button on your WWW Browser.