Wiki - Level 1 DFD

Data Dictionary

EE = External Entity
P = Process
DS = Data Store
DF = Data Flow

Type & ID	Name	Description
EE-1	Internal User	A Gender Initiative Project member
EE-2	Event Submitter	Outsider who is submitting an event
EE-3	Public User	Person viewing the website
P-1	Calendar Subsystem	Part of the project dealing with calendar functions. See Calendar DFD for more information
P-2	Contacts Subsystem	Part of the project dealing with contacts. See Contacts DFD for more information
P-3	Library Subsystem	Part of the project dealing with library resources. See Library DFD for more information
P-4	Search Events, Contacts, and Library	Allows public users to perform searches through events, contacts, and library resources using one or more keywords. See ?Search DFD for more information
DS-Cal	Calendar	Stores information about calendar events
DS-Co	Contacts	Stores information about contacts
DS-Lib	Library	Stores information about library resources
DF-1	notification of add/modify/remove request	Notifies an internal user whenever an event submitter submits a calendar modification request
DF-2	accept request	An internal user telling the calendar subsystem to accept a particular calendar modification request
DF-3	reject request	An internal user telling the calendar to delete a request
DF-4	add/modify/remove event directly	An internal user making a modification to the calendar without going through the submit, notify, accept process
DF-5	new contact info	Information required to add a contact to the Contacts database
DF-6	changes to contact	Information being changed on a particular contact
DF-7	remove contact	Command to remove a particular contact from the database
DF-8	view info	Contact information... includes information not visible to public users
DF-9	new library info	Information required to add a resource to the Library database
DF-10	changes to library	Information being changed on a particular library resource
DF-11	remove library item	Command to remove a particular resource from the library database
DF-12	view info	Library resource information
DF-13	event submission form	Information an event submitter fills out to request a new item on the calendar
DF-14	event modification request	Modifications requested to an event
DF-15	event removal request	Request to remove a particular event from the calendar
DF-16	request calendar	Command to display the calendar for a public user
DF-17	calendar	The actual calendar itself being displayed to a user
DF-18	search terms	One or more keywords to search for in the system
DF-19	search results	List of events, contacts, and library resources that matched the search terms
DF-20	query & results	Occurs in three places on the Level 1 DFD... the actual query made to the database matching the search terms given by the user and the results returned by the database system
DF-21	events	One or more calendar records
DF-22	add,update,delete commands	Commands given to the database to modify the calendar
DF-23	contact records	One or more contact records
DF-24	add,update,delete commands	Commands given to the database to modify contacts
DF-25	library records	One or more library resource records
DF-26	add,update,delete commands	Commands given to the database to modify library resources