Tutorial - first steps

This tutorial will guide you through the first basic steps in DiversityDescriptions. After the installation, make sure you have access to the database. To start the programm double click on the DiversityDescriptions.exe in the directory where you copied the files of DiversityDescriptions. The main window will open.

In this tutorial it is assumed that you installed a local database server and are running DiversityDescriptions with the DiversityDescriptions_Worshop database available at our training server. If you are running a private environment with sufficient rights, you may create an empty DiversityDescriptions database. If you open this window for the first time, you need to connect to the database. Click on the button or choose Connection -> Database... from the menu. A window will open where you may enter your account information and choose the database (see image below, for further information see database access).

After connecting to the server and choosing a database click on the OK button to return to the main form. As indicated by the symbol in the right upper corner, you are now connected to the database. The tooltip of the button will show your current login information (see below). 

Tutorial files  

For DiversityDescriptions a number of tutorial files are available that provide examples, e.g. for using the matrix import wizard. The whole example demonstrated in the following pages is available as an SDD file and can easily imported. To copy the tutorial files into your resources directory select Administration->  Tutorial files ... from the menu. 

This tutorial is continued in the sections listed below.

• section Create a new project
• section Enter a text descriptor
• section Enter a quantitative descriptor
• section Enter categorical descriptors
• section Enter description data
• section Searching the database
• section Generate an HTML document
• section Sort the descriptors
• section Assign modifiers
• section Enter descriptor dependencies