Managing Sources

This page assumes, you have already added at least once source to your project. If you haven't yet, then you should first add a source.

Sources management relies on the two panels. The left panel lists all sources, added to this project, as well as their state and the respective available actions. The right panel will display the editor for the source's content, once a source has been selected for editing.

Reveal full name

Long source names are truncated by default. If you hover a source's name, the current entry will reveal its full name.

Open a Source in editor

Hovering a source, followed by clicking on its name will load its content into the editor (right panel).

Editing a source

See editing sources.

Lock for coding

Once your source is ready for coding, you can click on the "Lock for coding" button, located in the top-right of the right panel. It will open a dialog for you to confirm and will then navigate you to the coding page.

WARNING

Locked sources cannot be edited until they are unlocked. However, unlocking will currently result in selections being deleted, because all indexes would otherwise be broken.

A future goal is to do proper offset computation in order to fluently switch between preparation and coding. You can help to add this feature by contributing to OpenQDA

Unlock

Once locked for coding, a source is

Source actions

Every entry in the source list reveals an actions menu button (three vertical dots). Clicking it will open a dropdown menu with various items, depending on the source's state.

Download source file

This enables to download the source's original file for further external work. The following actions are generally available:

Rename

Allows you to change the displayed name of the source.

Delete

DANGER

This deletes a source, including all associated selections. Codes will not be deleted, as they exist independent of sources.