• User Guide
• Introduction
• Logging In and Out
• Your ISIS Home Page
• Viewing a List of Stations
• Viewing Station History
• Viewing Event Details
• Adding a New Event
• Saving an Event to Complete Later
• Returning to an Unfinished Event
• Correcting an Event
• Adding a Station to the ISIS Database
• Authentication

Correcting an Event

• Introduction
• Warning
• Instructions
  • Correcting the Event Date
  • Correcting Event Values

Introduction

Correcting an event in ISIS is done only to fix an error, such as entering the wrong phone number or misspelling a word. Since the ISIS database tracks changes, a change to a field value (such as a new contact for a station) should be made with a new event, not a correction. Corrections do not appear separately in the station history [help]. Rather, when viewing an event [help], the corrected value is shown as if it were a part of the event as originally entered. If quality control processes are in place, corrections should be made infrequently.

Warning

Recall that ISIS tracks changes to a field's values. Because of this, correcting an event can have side effects. Notably, if there are station events which follow the one you are correcting, your new value will "bubble through" the events until this field is changed by another event. If no events follow this one, like when correcting a recent event, this does not matter. However if you are correcting a historical event, you should carefully assess the changes to ensure they do not have undesired effects. This is even more important if you change the date an event occurred, causing the order of events to change. If you do the latter, ISIS will warn you before you confirm your changes, giving you the opportunity to view the other events before submitting your changes.

Instructions

• Correcting the Event Date
• Correcting Event Values

You must login to ISIS and have proper authorization to correct an event. Navigate to the event you wish to modify [help] and select the icon. You may also select this icon from the station history page [help].

The correction page restores the event to its state as it was before it was last entered into the database. Values which were entered into fields are restored to the input fields, and the previous values (before the event was entered) are displayed next to the input fields.

Correcting the Event Date

If you wish to edit the event date, first select . On the next page, enter a reason for the correction and the new date on the next screen and click . If you have provided a reason for correction, a date in YYYYMMDD format, and (optionally) the time in HHmmSS you will be taken to a page to review and confirm your submission. Be sure to review any warnings which appear at the top of the page. Select to confirm your correction. You will be taken to the event viewer page where you can begin additional corrections if desired.

Correcting Event Values

If you wish to edit mistakes made on the original event entry, enter the reason for making the correction (required). Then make changes to the values originally submitted or add new values. Select to continue to the next page.

If you have provided a reason for correction, made at least one edit, and the values provided meet the field requirements, you will be taken to a page to review and confirm your submission. Be sure to review any warnings which appear at the top of the page. This page looks just like the event entry confirmation page but event corrections are highlighted differently than the original event changes.

Select to confirm your correction. You will be taken to the event viewer page, where you can begin additional corrections if desired.