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You give input and choices in the Workbase, the right part of the interface. And while doing so, you are provided with additional information on selected parameters or values in the Explanation window on the left side. The Explanation window will always follow your selection in the Workbase (either a tree item, something in the list or something in the table of the Workbase ). Furthermore, note that Quaestor also provides feedback by means of colors and font styles.
Using the Workbase buttons in the Workbase, you can start or restart a process, accept choices and input and interrupt or stop a process.
By providing answers and choices to questions in the Workbase and using the Workbase buttons to continue, you will be guided through an analysis, design or engineering process. If the correct input is provided and choices are made, you will end up with a result. Quaestor will inform you if this was not possible.
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When a result is achieved. You can go through all input, intermediate and end results in the Workbase by selecting values and (in case of documents) double clicking values. Note that associated programs will start and load the associated files when you double click them. A Back to Quaestor window will appear on top of the started program in order to return to Quaestor.
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By means of the Knowledge Browser the KE is able to browse through all parameters, relations and constraints (frames). The Frame Viewer and Slots & Properties will follow the selections in the Knowledge Browser and enable you to modify all kind of aspects on the selected frames. Furthermore, the Knowledge Browser will follow your browsing through the Workbase.
Because all the Childs are interconnected you can easily follow the relation between a result and its origin. For instance, when you select a value of a result in the Workbase, the Frame Viewer tells you which relation requested the value and which relation has determined the value. In addition the parameter is in focus in the left bottom side of the Knowledge browser, and when you select this, it will show all the relations the parameter is part of, and by double clicking which relations can determine the parameter.
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The standard windows are activated when a knowledge base is loaded (depending on the standard view above). The standard windows are:
- Workbase, to provide input during a dialog and navigate through all solutions;
- Explanation, to present all reference information (and all other binary data connected to parameter, objects and relations that can be visualized in a web browser);
- Knowledge Browser, to add, modify and navigate through all knowledge;
- Frame Viewer, to view and change details on parameters, relations and constraints;
- Slots & Properties, to view and change properties of parameters, relations and constraints;
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- Trace Viewer, specialized window to debug modeling and evaluation of solutions;
- Web Browser, to view web pages, pdf documents, text, etc. in a separate window;
- Graph, simple viewer for multi-case values;
- Knowledgebase Clipboard, to export knowledge from the Knowledge Browser to a separate file, etc.;
- Workbase Clipboard, to export results from the Workbase to a separate file, etc.;
- Expression Editor, to edit expressions (relations, functions, constraints);
- Compose Text, to compose text based on text fragments in the Knowledge Browser or Workbase;
Finally you have special modal windows, for instance required to control Quaestor in combination with other programs. The special modal windows [3] are:
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- Knowledge
- New Relation...
- New Parameter/Function...
- Insert Knowledge base...
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- Class copy
- Reset LastChanged to Now
- Workbase
- Start Dialogue/Text on Workbase buttons
- Interrupt Dialogue/Text on Workbase buttons
- End Dialogue/Text on Workbase buttons
- Process Manager
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- Make Report...
- Graph
- Save As...
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- Copy
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- 3D Bar
- 2D Bar
- 3D Line
- 2D Line
- 3D Area
- 2D Area
- 3D Step
- 2D Step
- 2D Pie
- 2D XY
- View
- Knowledge Browser
- Workbase
- Frame Viewer
- Slots & Properties
- Explanation
- Trace Viewer
- Web Browser
- Graph
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- Knowledgebase Clipboard
- Workbase Clipboard
- Expression Editor
- Report
- Compose Text
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- Select as Goal
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- New Relation
- Constraint>
- Add New...
- Connect...
- Disconnect...
- New Parameter/Function
- Delete Frame
- Rename or Edit (depending on selection of a parameter or relation)
- Include Binary in frame
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- Frame to Clipboard
- Set to Clipboard
- Parameter to Dataset
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- Slots & Properties
- Illustration
- Complete expressions
- Compressed expressions
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- Add to Watch list
- Protect Input
- Summarize Relation
- List all values in Project
- Compose Text
- Search & Replace
- Expression Evaluator
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- Cancel
In the Workbase:
For the Workbase the available options in the right mouse menu will depend on:
- the type of knowledge base ( Classic or Taxonomy-based);
- whether you are in an active or inactive Solution;
- what you have selected in the Workbase;
In particular the Workbase right mouse sub-menus will contain different options in these situations.
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Main menu items
The main menu of the Workbase contains the following options:
- Workbase main menu
- Refresh
- Unreject
- Copy values
- Paste values
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- Solution/Object/Taxonomy/Entity sub menu))
- Database Input
- Process Manager
- Value to Table
- Value to List
- Unfold
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- Selection to Clipboard
- All to Clipboard
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- Filter Values
- Make Report
- Make Function
- Make Polynome
- Show Cluster
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- Cancel
The Workbase sub menu covers the following prime use cases as listed below.
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