Vernon Cataloguing

  • Featuring some of our clients and few of the artifacts from their collections
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  • Client

    Royal Air Force Museum
    Hendon, London, England

    Description

    Hawker Hart Mk. II, produced by Hawker Aircraft Limited in 1931

Customised to Your Needs

Although Vernon CMS is a pre-built package it is extremely flexible and can be configured to meet diverse and dynamic needs. Highly specialised collections (e.g. philately, sports, maritime, glass, military, and textiles) can be accommodated with precision.

There are many services, tools, parameters and facilities which provide this flexibility. The more important of these are:

Customised Windows & Menus

 

It is easy and inexpensive for Vernon Systems to construct customised windows. These present only those fields relevant to your needs in the sequence and manner which suits you best to enter and view the data.

User Fields

 

There are generous allowances of User Assigned fields of all types (authority, text, numeric, money, dates, and edit tables) for each of the major files. These can be configured for use for any special needs.

Field Name Changes

 

You can change the name of any field and the new name is propagated throughout the system to all places where that field is used (e.g. in screens, reports, queries, etc).

User Views

 

The User View window automatically formats and presents data relevant to the user′s needs. It is sensitive to the type of object (e.g. for fine art objects showing artist, title, date, media, etc, and for natural science specimens showing classification, field collection details, etc). The default view for each user can be set as part of their User Preferences, but they can switch to use any other view from a dropdown selection.

Hence, only relevant data from the object file is presented when retrieval yields a browse list of objects from different disciplines (e.g. all objects donated by ′X' or all objects acquired in a period).

User views can include images, and you have full control over fonts and other display attributes for fields and their labels (names) when constructing your views. You can also print the View as you see it (with its images, fonts and colours) or you can save it as an HTML document. The User View window is ideal for casual users to view Objects and get quick reports and generate HTML records.

A sample user view in the Object User View window.

ABOVE: A sample user view in the Object User View window.

The ′one line′ display for any object or activity is used to head windows and identify records in table views as well as being available in reporting. It is also a user view. These ′short summary′ views can be created and maintained by the System Supervisor.