Author and End-User Modes

Depending on the user-role you play in an account, you may be allowed to use an Application or use, create, and edit Applications. If you have the Author role, you can toggle between the two user modes in an Application using the Edit checkbox:

• Edit Unchecked – You are in End-user mode and you are allowed to use the Application – view, edit, and create records. This is a good way to test the application from an End-user's point of view.
• Edit Checked – You are in Author mode so in addition to being able to use the Application, you also have rights to edit the Application.
  

End-User Mode

This section of the User Guide focuses on using Coghead from an End-user’s perspective. Coghead Application End-users can use Applications for online data management and storage by creating, updating and deleting records in a Collection.

• Users can switch between Accounts, Applications and Collections
• Users can create, update and delete records in a Collection
• Users can search for records and use Author created filters called Views
• Users can export Record Lists to a .csv file to be used in programs like Excel

About Applications

An Application has Collections, Forms, Views, and Actions.

Collections are objects used by the Application and appear as tabs. They contain Records. A Collection describes a data structure, and provides tools for viewing and modifying data of that type. Records are the actual data that is stored; each record is an instance of the data defined by the Collection. For example, if you have a Collection “Purchase Orders” then a record would be the data that makes up one purchase order. All records for a Collection are stored in the Record List and can be viewed by both Users and Authors

Forms, Searches and Views provide the end-user the ability to look at and filter the data stored in a Collection.

Actions are things that you can do to a Record in a Collection. Actions introduce behavior to the Collections. The addition of Actions changes a Collection from being a mere data structure to being objects with customizable behavior. Some of the default actions are Save, Edit and Delete. It is also possible to have custom actions which perform more complex behaviors.