Global Controls

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Global Controls

The home page for eLCAP is shown below. It consists of a left pane with Useful links and login controls, a series of page tabs, and some controls at the upper right and main pane that contains the content of each page as they are selected. The page tabs are disabled until you login.

These global controls are always available regardless of which page you are currently viewing.

Section notes:

1.Useful links

2.Page tabs - you navigate between application pages by selecting a page tab

•Home - the home page

•Instructions - basic instructions on how to use eLCAP

•Projects - this page is where you select the current project and trial to use, add/delete projects and trials, etc.

•Input - there are three pages (three menu items) associated with the Input tab: Manage User Processes, Project Information and Life Cycle

•Analysis - this page is used to perform an LCA analysis on the pavement project. This is referred to as a "Balance" since eLCAP will scale-up upstream flows to satisfy downstream quantity requirements. See Section 2.1 of the eLCAP Report.

•Data Quality - this page shows data quality assessment of the flow types that are used as input to the various mixes in eLCAP

•Interpreting Results - this page provides assistance in understanding the results generated by eLCAP

•About - a page that provides information about the status of eLCAP

3.Save To DB - selecting this button will save the current data in the UI to the database. You will be asked to confirm this request. eLCAP will do an automatic save when you perform an analysis (balance)

4.Save To File - selecting this button will generate a text version (in json format) of your data and allow you to download it to your local hard drive. You can later use the controls on the Projects page to upload this file into eLCAP .

5.Login controls - these controls allow you to:

a.login/logout

b.change your password

c.get a temporary password if you have forgotten your current password

6A series of link buttons that, when selected, will show the LCA model used in eLCAP