Enabling the Prompt Tab

Before you can use PROMPT, you must enable and initialize
the Prompt tab. You need to enable the tab in your target project.
- If you are comparing different versions
of the same ontology, your current open project is the new version of the
ontology.
- If you are moving frames from an included
project to the including one, your target project is the including one. In
other words, the larger project that references the included project as a
part of the overarching ontology.
- If you are merging two ontologies, your target
project is an empty project which will later contain the merged ontology.
- If you are extracting a part of an ontology,
your target project is usually a new project into which you will extract the
part. You can also use a project that already has an ontology in it: in this
case, the part that you extract will be added to that ontology.
To enable the tab:
- Open or create the project where you wish to use PROMPT. For example, if
you are planning to merge two ontologies, or to extract part of an ontology,
create a new project that will contain the merged or extracted ontology. If
you are moving frames from an included to an including project, open the
including project.
- If you have created a new project, and you have not yet saved it, it is
best to save it before you enable PROMPT. This will tell PROMPT where to
store its log.
- Select Project | Configure from the menu.
The Configure dialog box is displayed.
- Check the
PromptTab
.
NOTE: If the PromptTab
does not appear in the Configure
dialog box, check the following:
- Make sure that the file
prompt.jar
is unzipped and
installed in the plugins
subdirectory of the Protégé
directory.
-
If you have more than one copy of Protégé
installed, make sure that you are running the copy for which you
installed the plug-in.
- If you wish PROMPT to use its color coding on all the standard Protégé
tabs, use the Up arrow
in the top-left
corner of the Configure dialog to move the PromptTab
to the top
of the list. If you do not place PromptTab
at the top,
color-coding will only be visible at the PromptTab
itself.

- Click OK to close the Configure dialog box.
You will be shown the Prompt tab, which at this point is simply one large button. Click
anywhere in this area to initialize PROMPT. See Initializing PROMPT
for more information.
Next: Initializing PROMPT
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