Maintenance Trees Clean

Maintenance - Clean descriptor trees

To administer the recommended modifier values select the Maintain descriptor trees tab and choose the tab Clean decriptor trees. Select the Project, the Descriptor tree and the Entity type (“Statistical measure”, “Modifier” or “Frequency”) that shall be cleaned. Currently three cleaning options are supported:

• Unsuitable recommended values - Clear recommended values the do not match the descriptor type, e.g. statistical measures for a categorical descriptor.
• Recommended values for tree nodes - Clear recommended values that are not directly assigned to a descriptor, but a tree node. You should only perform this operation if you are sure that the neccessary values have been directly assigned to the approriate descriptors.  
• All values in the descriptor tree - Delete all recommended values. Only descriptor trees can be selected for this option, that are not marked as “complete”. You should only perform this operation if you are sure that the neccessary values have been assigned to a complete descriptor tree of the project.  

To start the search click on the Check for values to clean button. 

To start the update of the selected descriptor tree click on the button. 

Maintenance Trees Frequency

Maintenance - Frequency values

To administer the recommended frequency values select the Maintain descriptor trees tab and choose the tab Frequency values. Select the Project and the Descriptor tree that shall be checked and click on the Check for frequency values button. Behind the “Descriptor” column all used frequency values are shown in the output table. Values that are not assigned for the selected descriptor tree but anyway available in the project, e.g. due to a different descriptor tree or inherited by a superior tree node, are diplayed with blue background (see image below).

New values may be inserted in the table by selecting them in the check list on the left and clicking the Add >> button. The check list shows the frequency values available in your database. Additional values can be inserted in the Modifier/Frequency tabs of Edit descriptor or Edit project. By clicking the button All >> rsp. None >> may check or uncheck all checked values from the list box in the table. The buttons All project >> and No project >> check or uncheck the project specific entries with blue background in the table. If one or more lines in the output tables are selected (click on the fields before the “OK” column), the mentioned functions operate only for the selected lines, otherways for the whole table. With option Fix descriptor columns you may fix the first data grid columns to scroll horizontally thru the value list.  

To store the modifications to the selected descriptor tree click on the button. Instead of updating the selected entries you may click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the corresponding data sets.

Maintenance Trees Measure

Maintenance - Statistical measures

To administer the recommended statistical measures select the Maintain descriptor trees tab and choose the tab Statistical measures. Select the Project and the Descriptor tree that shall be checked and click on the Check for statistical measures button. Behind the “Descriptor” column all used statistical measures are shown in the output table. Descriptors that have not assigned any statistical measures are marked with yellow background. Values that are not assigned for the selected descriptor tree but anyway available in the project, e.g. due to a different descriptor tree or inherited by a superior tree node, are diplayed with blue background (see image below).

New values may be inserted in the table by selecting them in the check list on the left and clicking the Add >> button. By clicking the button All >> rsp. None >> may check or uncheck all checked values from the list box in the table. The buttons All project >> and No project >> check or uncheck the project specific entries with blue background in the table. If one or more lines in the output tables are selected (click on the fields before the “OK” column), the mentioned functions operate only for the selected lines, otherways for the whole table. With option Fix descriptor columns you may fix the first data grid columns to scroll horizontally thru the value list.  

To store the modifications to the selected descriptor tree click on the button. Instead of updating the selected entries you may click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the corresponding data sets. 

Maintenance Trees Missing

Maintenance - Missing description entities

To find description entities that are not correctly assigned to the project’s descriptor trees, select the Maintain descriptor trees tab and choose the tab Missing description entities. Select the Project and the Entity type that shall be checked. Currently the following entity types are supported:

• Descriptor - Search for descriptors that are referenced in the description data but not assigned to the project’s descriptor tree
• Statistical measure - Search for statistical measures that are referenced in the description data but not assigned to the quantitative descriptor
• Modifier - Search for modifier values that are referenced in the description data but not assigned to the quantitative rsp. categorical descriptor
• Frequency - Search for frequency values that are referenced in the description data but not assigned to the categorical descriptor

By default the option Ignore inherited entities is checked, therefore only descriptors of the own project and recommended values directly assigned to the project descriptor are evaluated. If option Include description IDs is checked you will have the option to inspect the found data sets after the query. Start the query with a click on the Check for missing entities button.

If you selected the option Include description IDs the button Inspect dataset will be shown. By selecting an entry and clicking the button Inspect dataset you may directly navigate to that dataset.

Before database update select the Target descriptor tree where missing entities shall be inserted. By default only descriptor trees that are marked as “complete” are shown. You may uncheck option Show only complete trees to display all present descriptor trees.

To update the database click on the button. Instead of updating the selected entries you may click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the corresponding data sets.

Maintenance Trees Modifier

Maintenance - Modifier values

To administer the recommended modifier values select the Maintain descriptor trees tab and choose the tab Modifier values. Select the Project and the Descriptor tree that shall be checked and click on the Check for modifier values button. Behind the “Descriptor” column all used modifier values are shown in the output table. Values that are not assigned for the selected descriptor tree but anyway available in the project, e.g. due to a different descriptor tree or inherited by a superior tree node, are diplayed with blue background (see image below).

New values may be inserted in the table by selecting them in the check list on the left and clicking the Add >> button. The check list shows the modifier values available in your database. Additional values can be inserted in the Modifier/Frequency tabs of Edit descriptor or Edit project. By clicking the button All >> rsp. None >> may check or uncheck all checked values from the list box in the table. The buttons All project >> and No project >> check or uncheck the project specific entries with blue background in the table. If one or more lines in the output tables are selected (click on the fields before the “OK” column), the mentioned functions operate only for the selected lines, otherways for the whole table. With option Fix descriptor columns you may fix the first data grid columns to scroll horizontally thru the value list. 

To store the modifications to the selected descriptor tree click on the button. Instead of updating the selected entries you may click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the corresponding data sets.