3 Creating Groups and Entries
When you are logged in and you have the access to create a new group or
entry under the group that you are viewing there will be a set of links under the File menu
that allows you to create a new File, Group or some other Entry type:
Choosing "New Entry" takes you to this page:
You can directly create a group, upload a file or select a specific entry type in the form.
Selecting the "Create a group" link will take you to the
create group form:
Enter a name and an optional description, date range and lat/lon bounding box.
3.0 Uploading Files
To upload a file to a RAMADDA repository you create a new Entry.
From the File menu select "New File".
The Create Entry form allows you to upload a file or specify a URL.
If you are a site administrator you can also specify a path to
a file on the server machine.
The minimal you need to enter here is the file or URL. The other fields
are optional. If you do not enter a name then the file name is used.
If you have a number of files that you want to upload you can make a .zip file
of them on your machine and check on the " Unzip Archive" button.
If you are uploading a netcdf file (or another data type that can be opened,
e.g., grib, radar, area file, etc) checking "Add Metadata"
will have RAMADDA crack open the file and harvest the time range, lat/lon
bounding box, global attributes and variables and add them as Metadata of
this Entry.
See the section on metadata for more information.
The "Data Type" is an optional and arbitrary data type that can
be used to search for entries of this type.
The "Date Pattern" can be used to match on the file name to automatically
figure out the date of this entry.
3.1 Importing a THREDDS Catalog
If you are a site administrator the New Entry page will also show a form that allows you to import a
THREDDS catalog from an external server:
Enter a URL to a THREDDS catalog. The Recurse checkbox determines whether catalog references
will be followed. If you select Download URLS RAMADDA will try to download the files if possible.
This create a special THREDDS Catalog Harvester that can be monitored
from the Admin Harvesters page.
