10.2. Create

The menu option to add a file should be visible whenever you see an address details screen like the ones you see in the next pictures or when you see a project details screen.

As you can see there is an option 'Add Document' visible in the upper left part of the menu on all screens. For our examples we will stick with the company for now but there really is no difference between them. When you click on this menu option a new screen will be shown much like the one you see in the next picture.

There are some options visible which I think are worth explaining before we go any further.

• Document name: This mandatory field should be used to enter a good and descriptive text about the file.

• Version: enter here the applicable version number (or leave empty. Personally I don't care what you do :-)

• Author: Default this is your name but this can be changed.

• Original name: Click on the 'Choose' button and locate and click on the file on your workstation that you would like to store.

• Versioning system: here you select a specific versioning system. Please note that you can not change this in a later stage. You can choose from the following options:

  • none: Don't use a versioning system. Consecutive uploads to this file will simply overwrite the old one.

  • TUTOS: Have TUTOS keep track of the different versions.

  • RCS: Use the old but well established RCS system to do the versioning.

  More on this subject in a later section of this chapter.

• Locking: should the document be unlocked so everybody that has access to this document can do stuff with it or should it be locked for exclusive use by the person who stored it in the first place?

When all is okay you can click on the 'Enter' button to have youyr browser upload the file to the TUTOS server (did I mention before that TUTOS is a client-server oriented system and thus completely buzzword compliant?)

As an example I will fill in the form with some appropriate information and upload a file into the TUTOS system. Although I don't use MS-Word myself I hear that a lot of people do so I'll just use that to show you some nice features. The next picture shows the data I entered into the screen.

After clicking on the 'Enter' button we are presented with the following screen.

This screen is always shown when we click on a document somewhere in the TUTOS system and we want to know more about it. But more about this subject in the next section.