To edit a corpus or session node, highlight the desired node in the Local corpus, right click and select “View Selected” (Figure 4.1 1), and as with the session elements in the previous chapter, you now have a window in the main frame with all the metadata fields for that node (Figure 4.1 2).

Figure 4.1. Viewing an element for editing

You need to double click a text field to make it live. If the text field contains text already, like “Unspecified”, this text does not auto delete when you make the cell live. You have to delete the text before you start to type, or you will be adding to it, as opposed to overwriting it (Figure 4.2 3).

Figure 4.2. Overwriting warning

Some cells are what is called a Closed Vocabulary. These are cells where you are forced to, or recommended to make a choice from a drop-down selection. These drop-down lists open once you have clicked the cell to make it live. There are two types of Controlled Vocabulary cells: Closed and Open. Closed Controlled Vocabulary is where there would only be a set choice of answers, like Actor Role, or Actor Gender. In this type of Controlled Vocabulary cell you can only make a selection from the list (Figure 4.3 4).

Figure 4.3. Closed Controlled Vocabulary

The other type being Open Controlled Vocabulary. Here you are prompted to select from the list, but if what you want isn't there, you still have the option to free-type into this type of field. Open Controlled Vocabulary is used in Description fields, where you are prompted to select a language for the field. This is not the language of your project or actors, it is the language you will be using to write in the Description field (Figure 4.4 5).

Figure 4.4. Open Controlled Vocabulary

When you edit a node in Arbil a red exclamation mark will appear next to it in the Local Corpus frame. This means changes have been made that have not been saved. Once you have completed your work on a certain node, right click it and select “Save Changes to Disk”. The red exclamation mark will now turn blue, meaning the changes have been saved locally, but have yet to be uploaded to the server. A session node can have both red and blue exclamation marks, as there may be multiple elements that can all be edited and saved independently of one an other. Figure 4.5 shows a session with two elements. One has been saved (6), and one is new and unsaved (7). This is reflected in Local Corpus by the session node having both red and blue exclamation marks.

Figure 4.5. Saving changes