Maintenance - Descriptor status data

To set or reset a certain descriptor status for dedicated categorical summary data, select the Maintain descriptive data tab and choose the tab Descriptor status data. 

Select the Project, the Source descriptor and the Target descriptor status. Depending on the Source descriptor type you have different basic options to select the descriptions for which the descriptor data status shall be modified. For quantitative, text and molecular sequence descriptors, you may decide if the selected Descriptor value shall be present (option Value is present) or absent (option No value is present, see image below). This basic restriction may further be refined by selecting Description restriction and Description exclusion lists (see Maintain descriptive data). Further select the data status and if it shall be set or reset using Action options.

After adjusting the required operations click on Check for descriptor status and all affected summary data will be listed in the lower table (see image above). For each affected Description the Action (DELETE or INSERT) and the Status are specified.

If you select a categorical Source descriptor, you have the basic selection options to modify the descriptor data status for specific Categorical state (option Specific state selected, see image below). In this case use the combobox to adjust the selected state. If you uncheck Specific state selected, you may search for descriptions where any State is present or No state is present. In any case the Description restriction and Description exclusion lists may again be used for further refinement of the description selection (see Maintain descriptive data).

You may select or deselect all entries of the result list for the database update by clicking the buttons Select all rsp. Select none. To perform the selected operations click on the button. Instead of updating the database you may click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the selected descriptions.