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The Tree Designer Interface

The Tree Designer includes a number of windows and dialogs to help you create and edit knowledge trees.

You can design and build knowledge tree documents for a knowledge base. A knowledge tree represents expert knowledge in a particular area. Each tree is constructed to guide the user through the process of resolving a problem, performing a procedure, or achieving a specified goal.

You can use the Tree Designer to do the following:

• Add, delete, rename, copy, cut, and paste decision nodes in a hierarchical tree structure.
• Design query nodes that pose questions, supply possible answers to questions, or serve as parent nodes for further subnodes in the tree.
• Design conclusion nodes to supply the final answer to a query or to end a procedure.
• Link jump nodes to previously defined nodes in a procedure or query.
• Check and correct errors in the decision tree logic.
• View node layout that displays at run time.

The menu bar at the top of the right pane of the Tree Designer window provides access to features with which you can build and edit knowledge trees. The Tree pane shortcut menu in the Tree Designer opens when you right-click a branch in the tree.

More information:

The Tree Menu

The Node Actions Menu

The Edit Menu

The Options Menu

The View Menu

The Window Menu

The Help Menu

The Tree Pane Shortcut Menu

Tree Designer Components