Corpus Navigator

The Corpus Navigator tab is located on the left side of the Text Corpus view. Here you can see the position of the text in the corpus tree, displayed hierarchically. You can navigate through the corpus by clicking the database objects or using the "up" and "down" arrow keys on your keyboard, and using "right" and "left" arrows in order to expand or close a node (entry in a tree). Only one text can be opened at a time.

Apart from the object name, physical location of the database object is displayed in square brackets. The number of elements it contains is displayed in round brackets.

is displayed for any active corpus in the tree, for which you have an updater or reader status.

is displayed for every other corpus.

Corpus Navigator has two sub-tabs: Text Corpora and Bin. A third tab with the search results will appear, when you open the search dialog. By default the tab Text Corpora is activated. In the Bin tab you can find your deleted texts and objects. Please note that generating the list of the objects in the "Bin" tab may take up to one minute the first time you click it after installing BTS. Thereafter the preview works faster.

At the top of the Corpus Navigator section there are several buttons. Two of them, and , are also available in other windows and are therefore explained in the Common features section.

Corpus Navigator-specific buttons are the following:

Create New Text Corpus

Click to create a new corpus.

Add Text Corpus Object

Adds a "child" (a lower level)-object to the currently selected database object. Choose the active element by clicking it. It receives a the default title "BTSTC Object" unless you rename it in the Passport Editor.

NOTE: The physical location where the child element is saved is not the active corpus but your main working corpus which you have chosen in the Preference Settings.

Add Text

Adds a "child" text to the selected node. It is called "BTS Text" unless you rename it in the Passport Editor.

NOTE: The physical location where the child element is saved is not the active corpus but your main working corpus you have chosen in the Preference Settings.

Add Annotation

Adds an annotation to the active node.

Add Comment

Adds a comment to the active node.

Delete

Moves the selected element from the Corpus Navigator section to the Bin. In the Bin you can either restore it or permanently delete it per right-click. Note that you are only allowed to delete your own objects, texts etc..

Open Simple Search Dialog

Open a search dialog in order to search for specific database objects, phrases. etc..

Clicking will display the drop-down menu containing options described above plus the additional ones: