Getting Familiar with MultiTes Pro

In this lesson you are going to learn just how easy it is to create your own thesaurus with MultiTes Pro. You are going to input terms and relationships in order to create a Thesaurus of Geographic Locations.

Here is what you are going to do in this lesson:

Create your first thesaurus
Input terms (raw vocabulary)
Build relationships between terms
Use the Quick Data Entry screen
Display Term information
View more options to enter New Terms
View more options to build Relationships
Print the Alphabetical Report
Create your second thesaurus

The following pages will give you all the information required to complete each one of these steps.

1. Creating your First Thesaurus

Start the system
On the File menu, click New, the system will prompt you for a filename and location
Type Geographic Locations and press Enter , the system will now prompt you for a description for this thesaurus
In Description enter Thesaurus of Geographic Locations and press Enter

2. Entering Terms

Press Ctrl-N
Type USA
Press Enter to save the new term

3. Creating Relationships between terms

Press Ctrl-A
Select code UF, then press Tab
Type United States of America and press Enter
Click Yes when prompted to add the term.
Press the Esc key to close this window and go back to the main browser

4. Using the Quick Data Entry screen

Press Ctrl-Q
Type in the terms and relationships as show below
Click the Save button. The system will import the terms and relationships, and it will create all the corresponding reciprocal relationships in a single operation.

The main browser shows the terms with their corresponding status, type, flag, relationships, notes, and categories.

You can resize the columns by clicking and dragging the vertical line on the column header (we will be doing this in Lesson No. 2).

5. Displaying term information

Term record information window can be accessed by first selecting the term to display from the main window (i.e. highlight USA), then use any of the following:

In the main list, double click on the term in the main grid (i.e. USA)
In the main list, highlight a term and press Enter
Right click on a term and select Display Term Record
On the main menu, select Term - Display Term Record (or use its short cut Ctrl-Z)
Click On the main menu, select Term - Display Term Record (or use its short cut Ctrl-Z)
Click the Display button on the button bar

6. More options for adding terms

Terms can be added to the thesaurus in many ways:

Click the New Term button on the button bar
Select Term - New term
Copy a term to the clipboard (from another application) and then Edit - Paste term record.
Select File, Import to import a text file with your terms

7. More options for building relationships

Relationships can be added to the thesaurus in many ways:

Right click on a term, then select Add Relationships
Right click on a term, then select +Rel Wiz
Select Term - Add Relationships (or use its shortcut Ctrl-A)
Click the +Rel Wiz on the button bar
Display the Term Record and then click the Add Rels... button
Display the Term Record and then click the +Rel Wiz button
Select File, Import to import a text file with your terms and relationships

8. Printing the Alphabetical Report

On the Reports menu, click Alphabetical
Click the Print button.

9. Creating your Second Thesaurus

On the File menu, click New
Type TEST and save this file

Please note that you do not need to close your active thesaurus in order to open a second or third thesaurus. MultiTes Pro allows you to work on multiple thesauri simultaneously.

Now close this thesaurus and go back to the original thesaurus (Geographic Locations).