Tutorial on Associations

How to use the hyperviewer?

Content

Create a Topic
Assigning Topic Types
Changing a Topics ID
Assigning Names
Assigning Occurrences
Delete a Topic

Create a Topic

To create one or more topics choose menu "Insert/Fast Input..." or just press the insert key. A dialog appears. You have to type in the topics ID in square brackets.

Example: [topicA] will create a topic with ID "topicA".
If you would save the topic map the topic would be represented in the following:

<topic id="topicA">
  <topname>
    <basename>topicA</basename>
  </topname>
</topic>

You can input multiple topics (each in a square bracket).

Assigning Topic Types

To assign a topic type simply select the topic from the treeview. After that drag the topic which shall be the topic type and drop it into the Type-listbox.

Example: Topic "Painter" is of Type "Person".

Select Item "Painter" from the treeview. Drag item "Person" from the treeview and drop it into the Type-listbox.

To delete a topic type select it in the listbox, right-click at it and choose "Delete" from the appearing context menue.

Alternatively you can right-click at the Type-listbox and choose "Properties" from the context menue. In the dialog select / unselect all topics you want / don't want as topic types.

Changing a Topics ID

Select the topic from treeview. Change to ID in the Textfield "SGML-Id". After that just press Button "Change ID".

If the new ID already exist in the map, the topic will be merged with the existing one!

Assigning names

After creating a topic it has already one basename equal to its ID. To change it just double-click the item in the Names-listbox. Now you can change Base-, Sort- and Displayname.

To add a new topicname just press button "New Name..." the dialog will appear.

If you want to delete a topicname, select it in the listbox and press "Delete Name".

A valid topic must have at least one topicname element with a basename. Otherwise it will not be saved if you save the map.

Assigning Occurences

The behavior of the Occurrence-listbox is similar to the Topicname-listbox.

You can input role, type and locator to the occurrence. If locator starts with "http://" the Button "Show..." will be activated. After pressing this button the occurrence will be loaded into the webbrowser.

Delete a Topic

To delete a topic select it from the treeview. Right-click at the treeview item and choose "Delete" from the context menu.

ATTENTION: At this time there is no opportunity to undo this action!!