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Navigating the site
The Main Menu of the Spectrum Direct site has links to the principal functional areas of the site:
- Licence Applications: Select Land Mobile Application or Microwave Application to
access the on-line licence application forms. You can also access the licence Application
Utilities from this area, allowing you to add to the Radio Model or Antenna Model lists.
- Radio Frequency (TAFL) Search: The tools provided on the site allow users to search
in real time the non-protected Technical and Administrative Frequency List (TAFL): a list
of Canadian radio frequency data from Industry Canada's ALS database.
- Account Information: The Land Station Browser allows you to browse and search all
administrative and technical information about the radio licence accounts associated with
your web profile.
- On-line Invoice Payments: The Invoice Payment option allows any client to pay
Industry Canada Radio Licence invoices on-line. You are prompted to enter the account
number and invoice number for the invoice that you want to pay.
- Web Profile: A web profile provides the user name and password that allow access to the
secure areas of our site, where you can submit applications and browse information for
the associated accounts.
- On-line Help: From this area, you can access this on-line help file.
- Related Sites: This section provides links to other useful sites that are not part of the
Spectrum Direct site.
Strategis Navigation
This site is part of a larger site called Strategis, Industry Canada's business web site. A standard navigation toolbar appears at the top of every page and as text links at the bottom of every page.
On the Spectrum Direct site, these links behave as follows:
- Francais links to the French version of the Main Menu. (On the French pages, an
English button accesses the English Main Menu.) Note that this link does not show the
current page in the other language. If you are editing information when you click this
button, all changes are lost.
- Contact Us links to a help topic that provides an e-mail link to the Web administrator for
this site. If you have any questions or comments on this site, the Web administrator will
see that they are forwarded to the appropriate contact.
- Help links to the Contents topic of this help system.
- Search links to the Strategis search form.
- Canada Site links to the main Government of Canada web site.
- Home links to the Main Menu in English.
- Site Map links to this topic.
- What's New links to the What's New topic in this help system.
- About Us links to a help topic that introduces Spectrum Management Services, and
provides links to more information.
- Registration links to the Create Web Profile page where you can register for access to
the protected areas of the site.
When you navigate to the main Strategis site, these links will have different functions. On-page Navigation Tools
Navigation aids for the Spectrum Direct site appear just below the Strategis header and navigation toolbar. There are three principal navigation and location aids:
Navigation Bar
The grey navigation bar appears first (and on the bottom of the page), and contains a hyperlinked hierarchical path to your current location on the site. For instance, if you are currently adding a
new frequency to a licence, the navigation bar reads:
You are here: Main Menu->Application List->Application->Station->Frequency
All headings except the current page are hypertext links. This navigation bar allows you to quickly get a visual picture of where you are in the site, and link back to any page in the path.
Note that this is a hierarchical, logical path through the site, and does not necessarily represent
the "history" of your path to the current page; you may have arrived at the current page from
another direction, and should use your browser's Back button to retrace your steps, if desired.
Also note, though, that using the Back button can cause an error in the application under specific conditions. That is, if you delete a component (for instance, frequency details for a specific
licence) and attempt to use Back to return to the parent component (for instance, the Licence
Page), you will get an error.
Page Heading Bar
The black page heading bar appears immediately beneath the navigation bar. It contains the title of the current page, links to sub-areas within that page, and a Help button. For example, the
Application Summary page heading bar contains the title "Application Summary". Below the bar,
you will find links to the page sections "Letter of Intent Summary", "Station Summary", and
"Application Submission", allowing you to move to those sections of the page without the need
to scroll. Clicking on the Help button on this bar will open the page overview help for the page.
Section Heading Bars
Each page contains at least one olive section heading bar below the page heading bar. It names and groups related information and fields on any given page. They contain a "back-to-top" arrow
that returns you to the top of the current page when clicked, the title of the section, and a Help
button. Clicking on the Help button on this bar will open detailed help on the fields in that
section.
On-page Application Functions
The application pages on the site have been designed with their own links and programming routines to assist in the completion of a radiocommunication licence application.
Most application forms (e.g., Letter of Intent, Station, Frequency, etc.) have action links immediately below the heading bars or form buttons on the bottom, depending on the state of the
page.
When you complete a new form, the buttons on the bottom are to Save the information or Cancel the form. Click Save to save the completed form as part of your application package. Click
Cancel to discard the form without creating it.
When saving, if an element on the form is missing, or the information in a field is not valid, an error will appear requesting that you correct the error. The form will not be saved until the error
is corrected.
Once you have saved a form, it is added to the application package, and you are returned to the previous page.
When you view saved information, the page is typically displayed with two action links at the top of the form: Update the information or Delete the information. Click Update to make changes to
the page. Click Delete to remove the page from your application package. Note that you can only
update or delete a page if the application status is "Not Submitted". After the application has
been "Submitted", you can no longer make changes to any application pages.
If you click the Update link on a page, the page is redisplayed in editable format. At the bottom, the buttons allow you to Save your updates, or Cancel your updates. Click on Save to overwrite
the saved page with your new changes. Click Cancel to discard your changes, and keep the saved
page without changes.
If you click the Delete link on a page, the current information and all related information is removed from the application. For example, if you delete a station, all frequencies, link stations,
reflectors, and repeaters associated with that station are deleted from the application.
Again, if an element on the page is missing, or the information in a field is not valid, an error will appear requesting that you correct the error. The page will not be updated until the error is
corrected.
The Application Navigator
A special navigational tool on the application pages allows you to quickly navigate to any component in your licence application, and to easily see which components have been completed
for the current application. The frame on the left side of the page displays a dynamic, hierarchical
list of links to application components; as new components are added to the application, they
appear automatically on the list, in hierarchical order. On that list, the current location (that is,
the component you are currently viewing) is shaded. To move to another component of the
application, click the link to it.
Each entry is preceded by a small graphic representing a page. In most browsers, when the mouse cursor is over this graphic, additional information about the entry will appear. For example, when
the mouse cursor is over the graphic next to a station call sign, the station location appears.
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