Digital Consulting System Plant Pathology Department University of Kentucky updated as of 8 May, 2008

Digital Consulting System System Overview

Submitting a DCS case County Office Diagnostician

When the case is submitted When a case is submitted to the DCS, the DCS system s … …submitter (County Office or Specialist) the case has been successfully submitted to the DCS.

When the case is submitted to submitter

When the case is viewed & assigned When the diagnostician assigns the case to a Team Member, the DCS system s both the… …Team Member that they have been assigned… …submitter that case has been viewed and assigned to a DCS Team Member…

When the case has been viewed & assigned to submitter

to Team Member when the case has been viewed & assigned clicks on link to open case

County Office When the case has been closed Team Member

to submitter when the case has been closed

s are sent to whom and when… conditionSubmitterTeam Member …case is submittedYes No * …case is opened & assigned Yes …case is closedYesNo *Diagnosticians are to check the Digital Consulting System daily.

Digital Consulting System Submitting a Plant Disease Case

This is the opening screen of what a non-Team Member (e.g. a County Office) will see after logging into the DCS.

Screen view from a non-Team Member’s computer. Screen view from a Team Member’s computer.

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Disease cases use Plant Disease link

Notice “Garden” had been highlighted but not selected (more later).

Select filename then click “Open”

Other problems most commonly encountered: -Filenames must contain only the following characters: letters (A-Z), digits (0-9), a dash or hyphen (-), as well as a space ( ) and an underscore (_). All characters other than these are not permitted. -too much time elapsed between filling out the submission form and submitting the case (12 min. max.) -images not Previewed before uploading -internet connection disconnected or interrupted

Notice “Location” had not been specified. Select a “Location” and proceed to Submit the case.

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What a Team Member sees

Information about the DCS and other Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory activities can be found on the Plant Pathology Department’s website at

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