How to Update Your Info

The following explains how to revise your contact information.

Note: You must be logged in to view and edit this data

Data Record View

From the main menu bar, click Members > Update Member Data. The page then shows the personal information about you in the database as shown in Figure 1.

Note: Although you are able to change the information in this view, doing so does not alter what is in the database.

Figure 1

Action Buttons - View Mode

The action buttons to the left of the data record are shown in Figure 2. Notice that the light purple-colored View button appears depressed, and the Modify button is not. These two buttons are used to control the mode.

Figure 2

In View Mode, you can view the data and you can generate a text file with this information. As mentioned above, even if you revise the record data, it does not affect the contents of the database.

Create A Text File

While you are in the View Mode, there is a green-colored action button appearing on the left side of the screen. (See Figure 2 above.) Click that button, and a new window will open with the text file information. The information shown in Figure 3 will appear in the window.

Figure 3.

Note: Pop-ups from this site must be enabled for this feature to work. If a new window does not appear, it may be because you have pop-ups blocked. Enabling pop-ups depends upon which browser you are using. In Internet Explorer, there is an option in the Tools menu item. In Safari, there is an option in the Edit menu item. FireFox shows an option at the top of the screen when a pop-up is blocked; you can choose to allow pop-ups from this site (cranburydigitalcameraclub.org) or do more extensive configuration from the Tools > Options > Content menu choices.

When the window opens, you have several choices.

• Print a copy using your browser's Print facility
• Save to a file using your browser's File > Save As menu option
• Copy and paste the information into another document

Edit Mode

In order to modify any data in the database, you must be in the Edit Mode. To enter this mode, click on the Modify button. The screen will refresh and now the Modify button will appear depressed as shown in Figure 4.

Do not click the green button until you are sure the data is correct - see the Editing section below - as this is what causes your browser to send the modified data to the database.

Figure 4

Editing

You may edit any of the data fields having a green bar to the left of the field label. In Figure 5, this member revised his email address and his web password. (Compare these with the fields shown in Figure 1.) Both of those items have green bars to the left.

The database will not update information that the member edits in fields having a gray bar instead of a green bar on the left. Club officers are authorized to change these fields, but the web server knows not to modify the fields marked with gray bars for normal members.

Pressing the green-colored Do It button tells the server to modify the database. After the screen refreshes, the information in the database is displayed.

Figure 5

Errors

After clicking the Do It button and before the server saves the new information to the database, it attempts to check the data for proper formatting. If the server finds an error it refreshes the screen with an error message printed above the record information. Figure 6 illustrates an error message for a password with illegal characters.

Figure 6

As you can see, the error message shows the password enterred by the member and an explanation of the error.

Figure 7 shows a red bar appearing to the left of the field where the error occurred to help locate which field needs correction. Data in the field is the original information stored in the database; it is not the erroneous entry that caused the error.

Figure 7