Project manager: configure

This page allows you to configure certain parts of BCal. You may update your registration information, change elicitation settings and change project viewing settings.

Accessing this page

This page can be accessed from the BCal menu by selecting "Configure".

Description

The page is split into several sections. Once you have made any changes you must click "Submit" to store the changes, which will be effective immediately.

Basic information

The first section allows you to update the information provided at registration time. You should ensure that your name, e-mail address and organization are always up to date.

General settings

With this section you can define the preferred calendar in which you wish to work with BCal. The calendar can be either "cal BP" or "BC/AD". Within the definition editor, this setting will allow you to provide absolute prior chronological information as either years expressed in cal BP or years expressed in BC/AD. In the results presentation tool, where appropriate, results will be presented using the calendar corresponding to this setting.

Note: It is important to be aware that there is no 0 year within the BC/AD calendar. BCal takes this into account in all input/output. A side effect of this is that within individual parameter plots generated by BCal, the tics for years within the BC time scale may all end in 1. This is completely normal and does not represent a fault in the plotting software.

Elicitation settings

This section provides you with some control over the elicitation process within the definition editor. The following fields allow you to set the number of items that appear on each page during the initial elicitation of the calibration definition.

Group - The number of groups that may appear in one page.
Floating parameters - The number of floating parameters that may appear on one page.
Determinations - The number of determinations that may appear on one page.
Absolute chronological information on determination parameters - The number of determination parameters that may appear on one page during the elicitation of absolute chronological information on determination parameters.
Relative chronological information on determination parameters - The number of groups that may appear on one page during the elicitation of relative chronological information about determination parameters.

The following fields allow you to select the number of determination parameters that appear per row.

Calibration curves - The number of determination parameters that may appear per row during the elicitation of which calibration curves to use.
Absolute chronological information types on determination parameters - The number of determination parameters that may be shown per row when eliciting information about the types of absolute chronological information.

View project (image) settings

This section allows you to define settings for the graphical representation generated when viewing the project.

Group width - The width of each group in pixels.
Horizontal spacing - The number of pixels between groups and floating parameters.
Vertical spacing - The minimum number of pixels below each parameter (except late boundaries).
Vertical spacing (groups) - The minimum height of each group in pixels.