Cave entry page fields

There are a lot of fields on the 'new/edit cave' page and the 'new/edit entrance' page and some of them are a quite mysterious. This page explains what they mean, and how to enter new caves and entrances, and especially how to add images/surveys so that they appear.

Effectively each field is concatenated to make an HTML page for the cave (or entrance), so each field may contain arbitrary HTML.

You can either add caves (or entrances) using the web-interface, clicking on 'New Cave') or 'New Entrance'), or you can check out the 'expoweb' repository and just edit the files.

File layout

The caves in our site are stored as XML files under noscript/cave_data and in files named area-cavenumber. Entrances are correspondingly in noscript/entrance_data files, with the same naming convention, except that if there is more than one entrance they have a,b,c suffixes. Any associated files, usually photos and surveys, are stored under the area names 1623 or 1626, then the cavenumber. An understanding of this file layout is very important when writing the html so that images appear as the URLs in the XML file should be relative URLs to the cave page, which appears as area/cavenumber.

An example will make clear how this works

TODO - example of the filelayout

List of New Cave/Cave_data fields

non_public

'False' or 'True'. True if the cave should only be visible to logged-in users. Caves are normally public, so enter 'False'.

caveslug

I.D. used to refer to this cave in entrance data files.

area

The Kataster area (always 1623 or 1626). It's important to get this right, especially if near the border between the two areas. 1623 is our main area, but the border is not too far beyond the Stone Bridge so since 2014 some of our caves are in 1626.

area

Yes - there really are two different fields, both called 'area'. Bonkers. This second one is the CUCC-defined areas shown in this plan.

kataster_code

The length/depth code used in the Austrian kataster. This may be autogenerated if you don't enter one.

kataster_number

unofficial_number

entrance

entranceslug

letter

explorers

underground_description

equipment

references

survey

kataster_status

underground_centre_line

notes

length

depth

extent

survex_file

description_file

url