Edit Description Grid

Description grid view

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. 

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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.

 

Selection parameters

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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