Moving

Works by: Drag and drop, right-click

Hot keys: X

Source requirements: One or more source relationships required

Target requirement: One target required

The move operation removes a parent relationship from a term, and creates a new relationship with a different parent. The move operation is analagous to an of "Add Child" operation and a "Delete" operation from the original parent.

To move one or more relationships, select a collection of source relationships that you would like to move. Then, select a target term to which they will be moved by right-clicking the target term or by drag-and-drop.

The move menu item has a flyout submenu of the relationship type that should be used when creating the new relationships:

Select the relationship type you would like for the new relationship, and it will be created. If you would like the new relationship to use the same relationship type as the original source relationship, use the "Use original type" menu option. This is particularly useful if you are creating several relationships at once by using a number of source relationships. If "Use original type" is used with untyped source relationships (ie one or more of your sources is an ontology root) the is_a relationship is used.

Hotkeys

When dragging, you can use the X key to specify the "Move" operation. The title above the terms you are dragging will change from "Dragging" to "Move...":

When the term is dropped, the type selection menu will pop up.

If you are holding down the "X" keys while dragging, you can hold down the "Shift" key to indicate that you wish to use the "Use original type" option when assigning relationship types for the newly created relationships. The phrase "Move (original type)" will appear in the title bar above the dragged terms. When the terms are dropped, no menus will appear at all; the new parents or children will be added immediately.