The Suggestions Tab

The Suggestions Tab shows a list of frames from the sources ontologie(s) and suggests an action for each frame shown. A pane at the bottom displays the Protégé heuristics for the suggestion. The Suggestions Tab is only available for the merge and moving frames modes.

When you begin a new merge project, this list only contains classes. As you modify your project, the To Do list is updated to include other frames, such as slots, that are logically necessary for project completeness and consistency. When you begin a moving frames project, the list is empty. As you make changes, PROMPT considers the structure of the ontology around the arguments to the latest operations and proposes other operations that you should perform. For example, if you have merged two classes, creating a new class which combines all of their slots, PROMPT may suggest merging similar slots as well.

Using the Suggestions Tab, you can:

You can also modify and create suggestions using the New Operations tab. 

The To Do list has the following columns: Name, Arg, and Params. These display the following information.

Name

Gives the name of the suggested operation. If Protégé supplied the suggestion, the name is in normal type. If you have created or edited the suggestion, the name is in bold

Operations include merge, copy, move, and remove parent operations. See PROMPT Operations for more information on the individual operations.

Args

Shows the name of the frame(s) that are arguments to the suggested operation. Copy, Move, and Remove Parent operations have one argument; merge operations have two. If you are extracting or including an ontology, only copy or move operations are possible, so you will see only one column of arguments. 

For merge mode, frame names are color-coded according to their source ontology. The first ontology that was loaded in the initialization dialog is in red; the second ontology is in blue.  In addition, any Alias you chose during initialization is shown. If you copy frames to the working ontology, the color-coding and Alias are retained; if you merge frames, this information is not preserved.

Params

Shows the parameters (options) selected for the operation. These options can be modified by highlighting the suggestion and clicking the View button. See PROMPT Operations for more information on the individual options.

Suggestion Buttons

The buttons at the upper right of the Suggestions tab allow you to modify the list:

View button: Displays the Edit Operation dialog box for the highlighted suggestion. This dialog allows you to modify the operation and change its options. You can then perform the operation, or you can leave it on the Suggestions list. You can also display the Edit Operation dialog box by double-clicking a suggestion.
Create button: Displays the Create Operation dialog box. From this dialog, you can select any of the above operations, choose the classes, slots or instances for the operation, and set the options. You can perform the action now or place it on the Suggestions list.
Delete button: Removes the highlighted suggestion(s) from the list.
Show Sources button: Displays the Source Knowledge Bases dialog box, which shows the source ontologie(s), and indicates which frames have been incorporated into the working project. The argument of the first suggestion highlighted on the list is highlighted in the Source Knowledge Bases window.

Actions

You can edit a suggestion by double-clicking it, or by highlighting it and clicking the View button to display the Edit Operation dialog box.

You can create a suggestion by clicking the Create button to display the Create Operation dialog box.

You can delete one or more suggestions by highlighting them and clicking the Delete button. To highlight multiple selections, use the Ctrl or Shift key, or use Ctrl-A to select the entire list.

You can perform one or more suggested operations by highlighting them and clicking Do It. To highlight multiple selections, use the Ctrl or Shift key, or use Ctrl-A to select the entire list. Once you have performed one or more operations, the Suggestions list will be updated to reflect the new situation.


Next: The Conflicts Tab

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