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5. HOW TO ADD A NEW EVENT
If this is your first time using OpenEvSys, you will need to know how to create “Events,” the
most important component of the Events Standard Formats (you can read more on Events in
Chapters 5, 6 and the FAQ in Chapter 18 of this manual as well as in Chapters 2 to 4 of the
Events Standard Formats : A tool for documenting human rights violations.
Click on Add New Event
Click on Add New Event to begin. You should now see a form with a whole myriad of fields!
Do not worry though, none of these fields are obligatory, meaning that you can record as
much (or little) information as you want. Even more important, you can customise the
formats according to your own needs – how to do this is explained in Chapter 10.
Each field has a useful question mark next to it which, when clicked, will display advice on the
meaning and context on the field you that are filling out.
Overview of the "Add Event" page
Let’s create a hypothetical case which will lead us through all the crucial aspects of
constructing an event. Here is the description of the event that we will work with:
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