Manage your Data Mine

Managing your Data Mine

From the Welcome screen, select the "Data Mine Admin" option.

The Data Mine Admin screen has a menu of the sections you can edit. The following sections describe how to configure your data mine.

There is an add button at the bottom of the screen with the "+" icon. Press the button to Add a new type.

After pressing "+", you can enter your new Data Mine Type into the form. You have the following values to enter:

1. Name: A description of what you want to enter, e.g. "Daily Weight"
2. Frequency: There are two options for frequency, Date and Date and Time. When you select "Date", then you can only enter one daily entry (the app will generate an error if you try to enter more than one entry on a given day). If you use Date and Time, then you can enter multiple entries per day.
3. Value Type: This is the kind of data you want to collect. You define these in the "Value Types" section. By default, My Data Mine comes with one pre-defined value type called "Weight (pounds)". Once you start collecting data for your type you can no longer change the Value Type of a Data Mine Type

If you want to collect daily medication, you can create a new type that is titled "My Medication" where you use the name of the medication that you want to track. In this example, we just want to track the daily use of the medicine, so "Date" is selected as the frequency.

Continuing the example of My Medication, you will need to have already created a Value Type of "Pills" before you create the Data Mine type. After creating the "Pills" type, you can add it as the Value Type for this Data Type.

After filling in the values, press the "Save" button. You will get a confirmation message near the bottom of the screen indicating that the item is saved. From here you can continue to edit the new type or you can delete it.

Press the back arrow button near the top of the screen to return to the "Manage your Data Mine Types" screen. You will see your new data type in the listing, which in our example, is "My Medication". More importantly, you will see the new type (e.g. My Medication) on the Welcome screen where you can start collecting data.

This is how it looks to edit an existing Data Mine Type that already has data collected: Frequency and Value Type cannot be changed, but the name can be updated.

This is how it looks to edit an existing Data Mine Type that has no data collected: Everything can be changed and the "Delete" becomes visible.

If there is no existing data, then when you open a Data Mine Type to edit it, you will see the Delete button. Pressing Delete will produce a confirmation dialog. Selecting "Confirm delete" will delete the Type and you will be returned to the Data Mine Type main screen.

After deleting an entry the app will load the "Manage your Data Mine Types" screen with an updated listing. In this case, the Daily Weight was deleted and only the "My Medication" type remains.

The "Manage your Data Mine Value Types" screen has a listing of all the existing value types. By default, My Data Mine comes with "Weight (pounds)". Selecting an existing entry will bring you to the edit screen. Pressing the "+" button near the bottom of the screen will bring you to the screen to add a new Value Type.

Continuing the example of creating a Data Mine Type for tracking "My Medication", we want to fill in the Value Type as "Pills". Here we have 4 fields to fill in:

1. Name: A name to describe the type (e.g. Pills)
2. Unit name: This is the name of one unit of the item (singular form). In our case, it would be "pill". These labels are used in places to describe the data.
3. Unit name plural: The unit name to use when the value type is not equal to "1".
4. Type of data: There are 3 basic types to choose from, including: Number, String, and List of strings 

For pills, we will choose the data type of "Number" (numeric). Another option for measuring pills, which would be more accurate, but a little more work for collecting data, is measuring milligrams (mg) since that would allow the collection of data that is more tuned toward different kinds of doses of pills.

After filling in all the fields, Press "Save"

After saving a new Value Type, the form will become the edit form which lets you update the Value Type or Delete it. Note that once you start collecting data, you can no longer change the "Type of data" and can no longer Delete the entry.

Pressing the back arrow will return to the "Manage your Data Mine Value Types" screen. You will see the new entry here and you can edit the entry by selecting it.