Submit Edits To The Files Table

Submit Edit To The Files Table

To submit a request to change the metadata of the File Table columns, for example, a classification tag (CTAG) you need to click on the Project ID column of the file you wish to edit.

This brings up the following window:

CTags are sorted by Well development stages; however, if the "Sort CTAGS A=>Z" is clicked, this sorts them all alphabetically, and they can be sorted back by clicking "Group CTAGS"

You can add information to the right-hand column. The left-hand column is the currently held information. Not all information can be edited, guidance on this can be seen if you click on the 'show guidance' button at the top of the popup window. 

Assigned C Tags are pre-selected. Additional C Tags can be added by holding the Ctrl key, then selecting from the list. Please ensure that all required C Tags are selected from the list before proceeding to Submit your edit.

It must be decided if the suggested edit is to be applied to to just the ProjectID from where the edit is suggested, or for all instances of the file (based on the SHA512 of the file).

Single - This edit only applies to the file in this project. Therefore, the file can have different Classification Tags (CTAGs) in different projects.

Multiple - This edit will be applied to any projects containing data duplicates of this file. All data duplicates of this file will then have the same Classification Tags (CTAGs).

A couple of examples are detailed below:

1. The same Source signature file has been uploaded to multiple projects with a comment of “4*40 Cu inches capacity”, but the comment should have been “3*40 Cu inches capacity”, so the description is edited to reflect this and the “Multiple” files option is selected. The description is updated on all data duplicate files in the multiple projects, without any more user effort.
2. A core analysis report is performed on core from a main bore and 3 side track wells which were drilled years apart and are in four different NDR projects, only core photos from the side tracks are included in the report.

• When the report was uploaded to the main bore it had CTAG “CORE_PERM” applied.
• When the report was uploaded to the sidetrack bore 1 it had CTAG “CORE_PERM” applied.
• When the report was uploaded to the sidetrack bore 2 it had CTAG “CORE_PERM” applied.
• When the report was uploaded to the sidetrack bore 3 it had CTAG “CORE_PERM” applied.
• A user notices that the “CORE_PHOTO” is not applied to the files in the three side tracks and selects projects for side track 1, 2 and 3 in the Project Table and adds all the files for all three projects to the Files table.
• The user selects the file from side track 1 project in the Files Table and makes the CTAG edit for it. The user can choose to apply the edits to “Multiple” or “Single” - The user chooses “Single”. The CTAG edit is applied to the file in sidetrack 1 project only.
• The user now selects the file from project side track 2 in the Files Table and makes the CTAG edit for it again choosing “Single”
• The user now selects the file from project side track 3 in the Files Table and makes the CTAG edit for it again choosing “Single”
• The user now has different CTAGs in the three side track projects to the main well bore project.

There is a free text box at the bottom if, for example, you wish the file to be deleted.

Once you are happy with your proposed edits hit the 'suggest edit' button.

Edits are proposals and will not be immediately implemented.

Data managers editing their own data

Historic CTags, which are no longer valid, will be replaced by the new CTags selected, you do not need to "deselect" them as they will not be on the list.

Comments should not be added unless the file requires some form of intervention from the NSTA. This also applies to changes to the file descriptions.

Valid changes made without a comment are usually implemented within 24 hours.

Unnecessary comments slow the process of changing the file metadata.

Any change to the Reported nature of the file must be enacted by the Reporting Company and cannot be done on their behalf by the NDR service team.

Data Manager’s view of proposed Edits

Users with a Data Manager role can now see the status of their suggested edits via the UI.

The table shows for individual Data Manager the edit requests that they have submitted and their status.

To access the new feature, users with the Company Data Manager role can launch the Edit Data Requests UI from Manage > Edit Data Requests.