Maintenance Categorical States

Maintenance - Categorical states

To shift and copy categorical states to a different descriptor or delete selected categorical states, select the Maintain descriptors tab and choose the tab Categorical states. In this panel you operate on the categorical states of the descriptors. If you want to shift or copy categorical summary data in descriptions, please use Maintenance - Categoricalsummary data. 

Select the Project, the Source descriptor and the Target descriptor. Click on Show categorical state mapping and all categorical state values of the selected Source descriptor will be listed in the upper table (see image below). Select the categorical states you want to modify in column >>.

The following operations are available:

• Delete the categorical state by leaving the Target state empty
• Move the categorical state by entering the Target state
• Copy the categorical state by entering the Target state and selecting the New column

In case the categorical states are moved or copied, associated fields as abbreviation and detail will be processed. State resources will not be copied. 

After adjusting the required operations for the selected categorical states click on Check for categorical states and the number of affected summary and sampling data will be listed in the lower table (see image above). For each State the Action (DELETE, MOVE or INSERT) and New state are specified. 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. If  Instead updating the database you may click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the affected descriptions.