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The following software must be installed prior to installation and running openADAMS from source:
The artifact editor saves all artifacts, folders and relations between artifacts in a database file. Images included in artifact fields are also saved in this database.
To install openADAMS from source please download the latest archive openadams-x.y.z.zip
from Sourceforge.
After unzipping the archive to an arbitrary folder you should be able to start openADAMS by running either the
script oaeditor.py
or oaeditor.pyw
.
Download the latest archive openadams-win32-x.y.z.zip
from Sourceforge.
Unzip the archive to an arbitrary folder and run oaeditor.exe
to start openADAMS.
Move mouse to one of the bubbles in the image to see the meaning of the element.
Use the menu item New database from the File menu or use the shortcut Ctrl-N to create a new database. A default folder layout will be created automatically.
To open an existing database choose the menu item File/Open database or use the shortcut Ctrl-O.
To create a new artifact select the appropriate artifact type from the Edit menu or press the corresponding
toolbar button.
The new artifact will go to the folder selected in the tree view. If not a folder but an
an artifact is selected, the newly created artifact will go to the same folder as the selected one.
The new artifact will get a default title.
To edit an artifact simply double click it in the tree view. A dialog box for editing attributes and text fields
of the artifact then appears.
The dialog for most kind of artifacts has several tabs. In the first tab all the attributes and text fields
could be edited. The other tabs contains checkable lists to manage links between artifacts.
The multiline text fields of artifacts could be edited in another way too. Each multiline text field has a
clickable label in the details panel. Clicking opens a more or less comfortable text editor for
the corresponding multiline text field.
Another kind of artifacts are images. In any multiline text field of an artifact images may be inserted. But only those images which are stored in the database file could be inserted. Use Edit/Add image from the menu strip to add an image to the database.