After starting a database query for descriptions select
Grid ->
Description grid view ... from the menu. The query result list is passed
to the description grid view form and a window as shown below opens (click the button
Display description table to build the table output). In the first
line the database name is displayed. If you move the mouse cursor over the database
name, a tooltip shows the actual connection paramter.
The table in the lower part of the window shows the description
titles in the first column and the summary data in the other columns. Each summary
column holds the data of a certain descriptor. If a cell with summary data is selected,
the summary details and the descriptor status data are displayed in the upper right
part of the window. The upper left part of the window shows the selection parameters
that are used for building the description table. You may change the table colors
by clicking the button
. A form as shown below will be opened.
Click on buttons categorical,
quanitative, text or sequence to select
the corresponding table colors. By clicking the
Reset button below the color, the corresponding default value will
be selected. After changing the table colors by a click on the OK
button, you must re-draw the table.
In the upper left part of the parameters for the description table can be adjusted. If in the query list passed to the form descriptions of different projects are present, the displayed project can be selected with the Project: drop-down box. The entries in the drow-down list include the project name, followed by the number of descriptions for that project in brackets and an asterisk (*) if the user has only read access for that project.
The Descriptor tree drop-down box restricts the descriptor columns to the descriptors contained in the selected tree. Furthermore the tree hierarchy is included in the descriptor names if a structured descriptor tree is selected (see images below).
The values From descriptor and to descriptor limit the range of descriptor sequence numbers that is included in the discription tabe. Be aware that this restiction is additionally effective to a selected desriptor tree! If you want to de-activate this restriction, select "from" value 0 "to" value 999999 by a double-click on the labels From descriptor rsp. to descriptor. The limitation of the number of descriptor columns makes speeds up the description table generation, especally if many descriptor (e.g. some hundrets) are present.
If you select option Separate statistical measures, separate columns will be insterted in the data grid for each quantitative descriptor and its recommended statistical measures. This option may be useful for editing quantitative summary data that use other statistical measures than Min, UMethLower, Mean, UMethUpper and Max (see section Data editing for details.
Finally click the button
Display description table to build a new description table according to
your settings. During output of the description table the icon of the button changes
to
and you may abort processing by clicking
the button.
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