Editing
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You can insert new taxon by:
·Press Ctrl+N  
·Press a button 'New' on a tool bar () or in menu 'Edit'  
·Click right mouse button and select 'new' from context menu  
 


After you perform this action new empty line appears in the list. Fill all the fields...
...and press 'Post' () using the same options as mentioned above (pressing 'Cancel' () at this stage results in the canceling of the whole record). If this was a taxon first in the list (or first in the database) you will be prompted to specify the category of the taxon.
When you use categories like Genus, Species or Subspecies, type them exactly as they are here (do not use lower case or abbreviations!)
After that all other taxa will be assumed to be in the same category, which means that Category field will be filled automatically for new taxa in the same level but you can always change it to any other category.
if Taxon has no sub (child) item use "New child item" button (Ctrl+Shift+N) to add new sub item. If you leave the category field empty you will be prompted to enter the category of new taxon.
If the parent is 'Genus' or 'Species' then categories are assigned by default 'Species' and 'Subspecies' respectively.
'Cancel' button cancels all changes after last pressing of the 'Post' button (NOTE: Record is posted automatically when you move away to the next record).
For instance, if you pressed 'New', typed some thing, and pressed 'Cancel' - the whole record will be cancelled. If you are editing the existing record, pressing 'Cancel' will result in restoring the record as it was before you started editing.

To edit the contents of the tree simply click the cell you want to edit and either press Enter or click again to enter the cell.



To delete taxon press Delete button

Images attached to deleted taxon are not deleted (they remain in the image library).
Taxon cannot be deleted if it has sub taxa.
Distribution layer for the taxon will be deleted after a prompt (if confirmed).
samples of the taxon are also deleted (the message comes out before deleting each sample and, if cancelled, the whole process of taxon deletion aborts).