Reference Manual

APPENDIX E: Configuration Items
System configuration items available by choosing "System Configure" from the "Utilities" menu are listed here. After
initial setup, most need not be changed in normal MUSE operation.
Institution: Your institution and/or collection name; appears on the opening screen in MUSE.
Acronym: Acronym for your institution or collection; appears at the top of the Main Menu screen.
Serial Number: Assigned when your custom version of MUSE was set up; it is not editable.
Default Label: The two-letter short name (from FORMCAP) of the label type to be automatically selected
on the "Form" menu on startup.
User Log: "Y" or "N" to turn on or off the automatically recorded log of MUSE sessions which includes the
following items for each session: date, login time, logout time, initial number of Primary records, initial number
of Locality records, initial High Catalog #, initial average record size (sum of Primary, Locality and Tax
History sizes divided by the number of Primary records), number of Primary records entered, number of
Locality records entered, and the number of Locality records proofed.
Auto Group Number: "Y" or "N" to turn on or off the automatic entering of group number in Primary (via
automatic lookup in the Taxonomic Dictionary based on the genus typed in Primary).
Lot Based: "Y" for a lot-based collection; "N" for a specimen-based collection.
Field Number Style: Specifies which style of Field Number will automatically be generated)based on the
Catalog #)when is pressed while adding a new Primary record:
"2": the Catalog # prefixed by a Z (e.g., Z1234 when the Catalog # is 1234);
"1": the integer portion of the Catalog # prefixed by a Z (i.e., Z1234 when the Catalog # is 1234.15, for
example);
"0": the integer portion of the Catalog #, without a Z, padded with leading zeros to make five characters
(i.e., 00123 when the Catalog # is 123.26, for example).
Label Malloc Size: Size of memory allocation in bytes for printing forms. Larger forms)in
FORMCAP)require more memory than small ones (e.g., approx. 12000 bytes are required for a loan invoice,
typically the largest to be printed at a site). Since the memory space allocated is not freed up after printing, this
number should not be greatly larger than that required for your largest form.
Security: "Y" or "N" to turn on or off password protection (not yet implemented).
Auto Proof Up: "Y" or "N" to turn on or off the automatic pop-up of unproofed Locality records in Primary
"Edit." This can generally be turned off after retrospective data entry is complete.
Choosing "Configure" on the "Utilities" menu will let you set up items related to the appearance of MUSE.
Currently eight aspects of the color can be adjusted. Colors are indicated by numbers 0 (zero) through 15
(fifteen) where: 0 = black, 1 = blue, 2 = green, 3 = cyan, 4 = red, 5 = magenta, 6 = brown, 7 = white and 8 - 15
are bright (or light) versions of those same colors. Some choices will take effect as soon as you return to
MUSE, but others will only work the next time you start the program.
Normal Background: The color of the background of forms and menus.
Normal Foreground: The color of the foreground of forms and menus.
E: Configuration Items