How do I download study groups documents from DMS?
The following steps describe the procedures on how to download study group
documents from DMS. Before you download, please take note of the following:
- Some study group documents are TIES restricted which means you will be
required to provide your TIES username and password before you can download.
For more information on TIES, please the TIES FAQs
page.
- All ITU-T documents are posted in MS Word version whenever available. In
some cases, a PDF version of a document is posted when a MS Word version is
not available.
- If the size of the document is more than 200k, a zip format of the
document is automatically made available in addition to the original
document for quicker download.
- All ITU-T documents are posted in English and in other ITU official
languages if available.
Steps in downloading study group documents from DMS
1. Go to the main page of the study group. A list of documents available for
download is available as shown in Figure 1.
2. Click on a type of document you wish to download.
3. If you click on Delayed Contributions, for example, a new page will open
showing you the list of Delayed Contributions of that study group for a specific
meeting date as shown in Figure 2.
A maximum of 25 Documents are displayed per page. The total number of
documents available is displayed and the total number of html pages
needed to display the documents are shown just above the table as seen in the top of
Figure 2. You can navigate to the other pages and
view the documents available for download by clicking on the page numbers.
Scrolling down the page using the scroll bar of your web browser, you will
see the documents available for download as well as the different details
regarding the documents.
Different details are displayed depending on the document
- Circulars - Number, Date Received, Source, Title and Destination
- Collective Letters - Number, Date Received, Source and Title
- Contributions, Delayed Contributions, Temporary Documents and Reports -
Number, Date Received, Source, Title and Questions
4. To download a single document, click on the number. You will then see a
more detailed page describing the document as shown in Figure 3. Click on the
format you wish to download. Depending on how you configured your browser, the
file will either automatically open in its default application1
or it will ask you to save the file. Alternatively, you can also move the cursor
on the format you want to download and depending how you set up your mouse or
mouse pad, a right or left click will give you the option of either
opening the file or saving it.
1 Word for Windows opens in MS Word,
PDF in Acrobat Reader, Zip files in WinZip or other file compression utilities.
You can also download a single document by clicking on the check box on the
left of the number of the document you want to download, select the format
and language you want and then click on the Zip and Download button as
shown in Figure 3-B.
5. To download multiple documents, select the documents by clicking on the
check box on the left of the number of each of the documents you want to
download as shown in Figure 4. Then at the bottom of the page, you will have the
options to choose the format or formats (if available) and in the language or
languages (if available) of the documents you want to download as shown in
Figure 5. All ITU-T Documents are posted in MS Word, but in some cases other
formats are available for download. (See Introduction). Click on Zip and
Download button and the documents you selected will be zipped and downloaded to
your PC.
Important notes on the buttons at the bottom of the page
- Check all is the button to click to select all the documents available for
download which are displayed on that page.
- Uncheck all is the button to click to deselect all the documents you
selected before.
- Zip and Download is the button to click to zip and download the documents
you selected.
Important notes regarding document formats
- The documents are available for download in doc, pdf and zip formats (See
Introduction)
- The option to select the HTML format means you have an option to download
html pages like what you see online showing the list and details of the
documents you downloaded. Using your web browser, you can use these pages to
view and navigate through the documents just like you are online.
- If you select doc format only, only MS Word versions of the documents will
be zipped and downloaded as shown in Figure 6.
- If you select pdf format only, only Adobe Acrobat PDF versions of the
documents will be zipped and downloaded if they are available. If there are
no PDF versions of documents available, nothing will be downloaded as shown
in Figure 7.
- If you select on zip format only, only Zipped versions of the documents
will be zipped and downloaded if they are available as shown in
Figure 8. If
there are no zip versions of documents available, nothing will be downloaded
as shown in Figure 7.
- If you select HTML format in combination with a doc, pdf or zip format,
html pages much like what you see online will be zipped and downloaded and
you can use these pages to view and navigate through the documents you downloaded just
like you are online.
- Figure 9 shows downloading of doc documents together with the html
option.
- Figure 10 shows downloading of pdf documents together with the html option,
but since there are no pdf documents available only the html pages were
zipped and downloaded.
- Figure 11 shows downloading of zip documents together with the html option.
If there are no zip documents available, only the html pages will be zipped
and downloaded as shown in Figure 10.
- If you select HTML format only, only HTML pages much like what you see
online will be zipped and downloaded. No actual document will be downloaded
as seen in Figure 10.
- If you select on all the formats, only the formats available will be
downloaded as shown in Figure 12.
All the formats are selected by default. This does not
mean that the documents downloaded will be converted to all the formats
you selected.
Important notes regarding document languages
- If you select E, English versions of the documents will be zipped and
downloaded as show in Figure 12.
- If you select F, French versions of the documents will be zipped and
downloaded if available. If no French version is available nothing will be
downloaded as shown in Figure 7.
- If you select S, Spanish versions of the documents will be zipped and
downloaded if available. If no Spanish version is available nothing will be
downloaded as shown in Figure 7.
- If you select A, Arabic versions of the documents will be zipped and
downloaded if available. If no Arabic version is available nothing will be
downloaded as shown in Figure 7.
- If you select C, Chinese versions of the documents will be zipped and
downloaded if available. If no Chinese version is available nothing will be
downloaded as shown in Figure 7.
- If you select R, Russian versions of the documents will be zipped and
downloaded if available. If no French version is available nothing will be
downloaded as shown in Figure 7.
- If you select all the languages, only the languages available will be
zipped and downloaded as shown in Figure 12.
English version is selected by default. If you
select all the languages, only documents available in the language they were
created and posted will be downloaded. This does not mean that the documents you
downloaded
will be translated in all the languages you selected.
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