The Result Window

The Result Window at the right of the Prompt Tab shows the current state of the working ontology. Tabs allow you to view classes, slots, or instances.

Result Frame Codes

The status of merged, copied, or moved frames is indicated as follows:

Result Buttons

The buttons at the top right of the window allow you to view the following information:

V(iew) button: Click this button to open the Class, Slot, or Instance Form for the highlighted frame. This may be useful, for example, to see the slots for a merged class.
Back-references button: Click this button to view all the objects in the working ontology that reference the highlighted frame. 
Show Sources button: Displays the Source Knowledge Bases window, which shows the source ontologie(s), and indicates which frames have been incorporated into the working project. When a frame is highlighted in the Result window, its source frame(s) are highlighted in the Source Knowledge Bases window.

Temporary Frames

When you are creating a new ontology from your source ontologie(s), you may incorporate (copy, merge, or move) frames that have as parents other frames that are not yet included in the working ontology. Protégé keeps track of the original relationships in the source ontologies. If you incorporate a parent later, the correct relationship will be preserved. 

Similarly, you may incorporate a frame that references another not-yet-included frame in the source ontology. In order to maintain internal relationships and to be able to restore them if a frame is incorporated later, Protégé creates "dummy" frames for frames that are referenced but not incorporated. These frames are created as subframes of the system class :DUMMY-FRAMES. They will show up in the Conflicts tab as conflicts to be resolved. 

When you incorporate the original frame from the source ontology, the corresponding "dummy" frame is automatically removed. However, if you finish the project and remove suffixes without ever incorporating the relevant frame, the "dummy" frame remains part of the project. 


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