Protege4Preferences

Protege 4.x Preferences

This page contains a guide to customizing Protege 4, 5 and newer through its preferences menu.

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Many Protege features can be configured using the inbuilt preferences. Preferences are stored in a system-specific way and are persistent across new installations of the tool.

Find them under File | Preferences.

Installed plugins may add further panels to this dialog. Below is a list of the default preferences:

Annotations

Control over the visibility of given annotations.

General

Preferences about the general look and feel of the application, including responsiveness to input

Editor

Control over how the expression editors behave

• Editor delay how long before the expression is checked to enable a dialog to be accepted

Search

Control over how the find / search functionality behaves

• Search delay how long after the user stops typing before the search is carried out
• Simple search faster searching using the * as a wildcard
• Full regular expression search note that searching using full regular expressions can be slow for large ontologies

Centre dialogs on workspace by default, view specific dialogs (find, add, edit etc) centre on the view. For small screens this option can be used to centre all dialogs on the main workspace

New Entities

Control how URIs and labels get generated when creating new classes/properties and individuals (including automatic ID formulation).

Also see New Entity Preferences for a more detailed description of these preferences.

New Ontologies

Control over the default behavior when creating ontologies from scratch.

Plugins

Download or update plugins using the plugin preferences.

Renderer

Control how entities are displayed using the renderer preferences.

Tree Preferences

How deep to open up hierarchies when they are first shown.

Usage

Control over what axioms are shown in the usage views. Hiding some axioms can make the view more concise.

Simple subclass axioms subclass axioms that have a named superclass or for which the current class is the superclass.

XML Writer

Control over the form of XML serializations (eg whether or not to use XML entities to shorten file length).