Note: Before you create and use metaclasses and metaslots, you should be confident with the basic Protégé interface and be comfortable designing a project, and creating and modifying classes, slots, forms and instances.
Once you have added one or more metaslots to your project, you can select the metaslot you want to use to create a subslot. When you create a subslot using a non-standard metaslot, the slot is given the attributes specified by the selected metaslot.
You can only select the metaslot for a subslot at the time of creation. If you create a top-level slot, you must first create the slot, and then change its metaslot. If you wish to use the same metaslot for all or most of the slots you create, you can set that metaslot as the default metaslot.
To create a subslot using a non-standard metaslot:
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