Chapter 3. Editing Sessions
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The Workflow chapter briefly described how corpora and sessions can be created in or imported into Arbil's Local Corpus tree. Once you have a session (can also be a sign-language session or any other type) in your Local Corpus, you can modify it and (if compatible) add resources from your Working Directories to it.
To edit, just right-click the session (see Figure 3.1), or "drag and drop" the session node to the working area, or edit some fields directly in the Selection Preview. In the working area session and node data is presented in the form a spreadsheet tables, and can be edited in ways that should be familiar to users of office suites such as OpenOffice.org™ or Microsoft Office®.
To add resources just "drag and drop" them from your Working Directories to the appropriate session node in your Local Corpus. Arbil will automatically create subnodes called MediaFiles (for pictures and video data) and WrittenResources (for text files) where you can find your resources and edit their metadata just as you would do it with the session itself.
Depending on the node type, you can add different additional sub-nodes (like Actors for Sessions) via the right-click menu. In most cases additional Description lines can be added this way.
The History entry in most nodes' right-click menu allows you to revert that node to any previously saved state.
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