Working with the Currently Displayed Resource

TopBraid Composer's Resource menu offers shortcuts to features that make it easier to work with the resource currently displayed on the main form.

• Send to basket sends the current resource to the Basket View. The Basket View help page describes other ways to copy resources there and what you can do with them.

• Edit form of resource's type displays the Form Layout panel for the currently displayed resource's type so that you can customize the form if a form for that type is associated with the currently open model. If the form is defined in an imported model, selecting this menu choice will tell you that; if it doesn't exist anywhere, you can create a new one in the Form Layout panel by clicking "Create custom layout for [classname]".

• Find on Google performs a Google search for the resource's local name.

• Find on Wikipedia attempts to display a Wikipedia page for the resource's local name, correcting for concatenation conventions in the name to search for a phrase. For example, if the resource's local name is JohnSmith or john_smith, this menu choice sends you to the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith.

• Find usages in workspace opens a Usages in Workspace View with a list of any triples in the current workspace that reference the displayed resource, along with the name and path of the file containing each triple.

• Find references opens a References View with a list of any triples in the currently open model that reference the displayed resource.

• Convert to defined class is available only when the currently displayed class has no owl:equivalentClass axioms (statements). It converts axioms that use rdfs:subClassOf into a single owl:equivalentClass axiom. For example:

  kennedys:Person
        a       owl:Class ;
        rdfs:subClassOf owl:Thing ;
        rdfs:subClassOf
                [ a       owl:Restriction ;
                  owl:allValuesFrom kennedys:Person ;
                  owl:onProperty kennedys:spouse
                ] .
  

  will be converted to the following:

  kennedys:Person
        a       owl:Class ;
        rdfs:subClassOf owl:Thing ;
        owl:equivalentClass
                [ a       owl:Class ;
                  owl:intersectionOf ([ a       owl:Restriction ;
                              owl:allValuesFrom kennedys:Person ;
                              owl:onProperty kennedys:spouse
                            ] owl:Thing)
                ] .
  

• Convert to primitive class is available only when the currently displayed class has owl:equivalentClass axioms (statements). It converts such statements into axioms that use rdfs:subClassOf.

• Create class members displays a wizard that lets you automate the creation of multiple instances of the currently displayed class.

• Extract class lets you extract a class definition and associated instances out from an existing class and set of instances. See the Extract classes help panel for further information.

• Navigate to ontology displays the resource representing the current ontology or model. This includes three useful tabs not included with the display of other resources: the Overview, Profile, and Statistics tabs. These are described further on the Resource Editor help panel.

• Open in SWP Browser displays the current resource in an SWP Browser View, showing how it would look in a web browser. See SPARQL Web Pages Overview for more information.

• Link to DBpedia resource displays the Edit Links to DBpedia wizard, which lets you set property values for the current resource relating it to a particular DBpedia resource. For example, when displaying the kennedys:WesleyanUniversity resource in the Kennedys example model, selecting kennedys:WesleyanUniversity on this wizard and then clicking the yellow down arrow button tells the wizard to search for the WesleyanUniversity resource on DBpedia. Once it's found, clicking the Up arrow copies DBpedia's URI for Wesleyan University to the form at the top. Clicking the wizard's OK button will then add the triple { kennedys:WesleyanUniversity owl:sameAs http://dbpedia.org/resource/Wesleyan_University } to the open model; the drop-down Predicate list in the upper-right of the wizard lets you select other predicates to use instead of owl:sameAs if you prefer before clicking the OK button.

• Delete removes all triples the resource is associated with. If you delete a class, it deletes all instance of the class, and triples that reference the class and instances.