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Add concepts using suggestions

Automatic suggestions

Starting from existing concepts, Platform is able to automatically suggest additional labels, narrower, broader or related concepts.

Top suggestions

Select an existing concept in the thesaurus tree. The main suggestions are displayed in the Labels and Relations tabs inside the Edit Concept panel under TOP SUGGESTIONS.

Suggestions are arranged in two strips:

  • The upper strip contains suggested labels in the languages set for the thesaurus.

  • The lower strip contains suggestions for narrower, broader and related concepts in the languages set for the thesaurus.

    Note

    In case of a thesaurus in a single language, in the lower strip is not displayed the language label part.

To scroll the list use the arrows on the sides.

To add a top suggestion as a narrower, broader or related concept for the current concept:

  1. Select the Relations tab inside the Edit Concept panel.
  2. Drag the suggestion under the desired heading (BROADER CONCEPTS, NARROWER CONCEPTS or RELATED CONCEPTS).

To directly add a suggestion to the the concept tree in the Resources tab, drag it in the position of your interest.

To add a top suggestion as an additional label for the current concept:

  1. Select the Labels tab inside the Edit Concept panel.
  2. Drag the suggestion under the desired heading (PREFERRED LABELS, ALTERNATIVE LABELS or HIDDEN LABELS).

Changes to the project—for example the addition of a language—may enable Platform to find new suggestions. To refresh the suggestions after project changes, select .

To filter suggestions by language, select an item in the Language drop-down menu.

All suggestions

To see further suggestions for the current concept select Toggle suggestions . To hide the suggestions panel select Toggle suggestions .

To see all the suggested labels, select the Suggested labels tab. To see all the suggested broader, narrower and related concepts, select the Suggested relations tab.

To add a suggestions to the the concept tree in the resource panel, drag it from one of the tabs to the desired position.

Use CTRL+CLICK for a multiple selection.

To add one or more suggestions as narrower, broader or related concepts for the current concept:

  1. Select the Relations tab inside the Edit Concept panel.

  2. Drag a single suggestion or select and drag multiple suggestions and drop them under the desired heading (BROADER CONCEPTS, NARROWER CONCEPTS or RELATED CONCEPTS).

    Note

    If you drop a suggestion under BROADER CONCEPTS, the New concept dialog appears.

    1. If you want to specify a different position for the concept in the tree, change the value of Broader concept.
    2. Select View concept to focus, after the creation procedure, on the concept in the tree.
    3. Select Create to confirm.

To add one or more suggestions as additional labels for the current concept:

  1. Select the Labels tab in the Edit Concept panel.
  2. Drag a single suggestion or select and drag multiple suggestions and drop them under the desired heading (PREFERRED LABELS, ALTERNATIVE LABELS or HIDDEN LABELS).