Theory
The basics
Guides
- Efficient document sharing
- Setting up a protocol collection
- Setting up a sample database
- Sample labeling
- Sending messages
- Export files
Document sections
- Text
- Table
- File attachments
- Image
- Movies
- Sound
- Script
- Signature
- Chemical sketch
- Table declarations
- Inserting records
- Removing records
- Unknown
For reference
Working with authors
Before being able to write any documents, a user profile must be created and selected. If you have used the system previously you should import the previous profile to keep using the same cryptographic key.Creating a new user profile
A new user profile is created by Client → User → Manage profiles → New profile. You will be asked to create a new cryptographic key and to set a password for it.
Using PGP keys for encrypting E-mail
If you decide to use PGP for signing documents then you have the option of also using them for signing and encrypting E-mail. This way you only use one "ID card" for both purposes, and thus also the same web of trust (see introduction for a discussion of this). If you have not used PGP before then you can export the keys and import them into your E-mail program.
TODO write how
If you already use PGP for E-mail, you can instead import these keys into your profile. First export them from your E-mail client (see the documentation for the software). Then, create a new profile in Labstory. Finally use “import” to import the keys, overwriting the previous keys of the profile.
TODO write more
Author favourite attributes
To sort your documents later, you will be setting attributes such as which group and project they belong to. Before doing so, you need to set up a list of favourite attributes (the system could just show all attributes that are on the server but the list would be too long to be convenient). You can store the favourites on a server to synchronize it between different clients. In addition, other users can optionally access it – this makes it easy to share the most commonly used attributes in your research group. To see the attributes, go to ...
TODO Here it is also possible to create new attributes.
TODO maybe not allow to get others favourites. But could send them to someone via notifications. Server can use public key to verify that someone only downloads their own favourites