Tag: Entities

Tutorial 1 – Entering Entities and Features

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 17 August 2020

Entities and Features can be entered in the Builder several ways. How you decide which method will suit you depends if you have existing data that can be imported, or if you need to start entering new data. This tutorial will take you through entering new data and importing data.

Entering new data

Entities

Open the Lucid Builder. By default, the Features panel will be active, indicated by it’s blue title bar. Make the Entities panel active by selecting anywhere in the Entities panel or on its title bar. The Entities panel will show it has focus by the title bar changing its color from grey to blue. The Features panels loss of focus will turn its title grey.
Right click any where within the Entities panel. This will trigger the context pop-up menu to appear. Since there are currently no Entities within the Entities panel the context menu options will all be disabled other than the ‘Add…Add Entity’ option. Select the ‘Add…Add Entity’ option and type in Camarophyllopsis and press the Enter key to confirm the entry.
Right click on the newly entered Camarophyllopsis Entity. This time the context menu will have additional options available. From the Add menu again, you can choose to either enter another root level Entity by choosing ‘Add Entity’ again, or you can choose to add a new Entity as a Child (‘Add Entity as Child’). Choose the ‘Add Entity as Child’ option. A new Entity node will be created as a ‘child’ below the Camarophyllopsis Entity. Now type in the species name of ‘darwinensis‘ and press Enter.
To add a sibling of ‘darwinensis‘, right click on ‘darwinensis‘ and select the ‘Add…Add Entity’ and type ‘kearneyi‘ and press Enter.

As you can see by right clicking on an Entity and choosing the add ‘level’ (parent, sibling or child) of interest you can quickly create a hierarchy of Entities. See the video vignette below that shows the start of creating the Entity hierarchy for the tutorial key.

Tip

Use the shortcut key: F2 to rename an Entity or Feature. Alternatively the right click context menu will also have the rename option.

Time to save your key

Now that you have entered some data into your key it's time to save. Click the Save icon on the main toolbar or the Save (ctrl + s) option from the main menu. The first time you save your key the Lucid Builder will ask you to specify a folder where to save the key and its name. After this has been provided you can save your key at anytime. We recommend saving often to avoid losing work. Lucid also has a rolling back-up that occurs each time you save.

Features and States

Entering Features and States is very similar to the Entity data entry process.

Give focus to the Features Panel by clicking anywhere within it or by the click the Features panel title bar. Focus can be confirmed by the Feature panel title bar turning from grey to blue.
Right click within the Features Panel. This will trigger the context menu to appear. Since there are currently no existing Features the context menu will only have the ‘Add…Add Feature’ option available to use. Select this and a new Feature node will appear in the Features Panel. The new Feature text will be highlighted and is ready for typing over. Start typing ‘Cap’. Once finished press Enter. ‘Cap’ will become a Grouping Feature. That is a Feature that will hold other Features, it won’t directly hold any States as children.
Now enter the four Features of ‘Cap’, ‘shape’, ‘dominant color’, ‘surface texture’, and ‘surface viscidity’.
The next step is to enter States for ‘shape’. Select ‘shape’ and right click on it. From the context menu select the ‘Add…Add State’ option. Enter ‘convex to hemispherical’. Repeat the process to add ‘conical’, ‘umbonate’ etc. Finish entering the remaining Features and States.
When you insert the secondary Features and States for ‘Spores – shape, contents, length range, dimorphism’ – note that the secondary Feature of ‘Spore length range’ will be a numeric state and therefore it has no dependent states. To convert this Feature into a Numeric State, first select it and then in the properties panel (which is to the left of the Features panel) select the Items tab. Towards the bottom of the Items tab is Feature Type option, change the selection from a Grouping Feature to a Numeric Feature. Ignore the data loss warning, select ‘OK’ and continue. The icon associated with this Feature will change to indicate that it is of a numeric type . You can return this Feature to a Grouping Feature by selecting it and changing the Feature type back to a Grouping Feature. You can convert Numeric and Grouping Features to States when no other Numeric or Grouping Features are at the same or at a lower level within the hierarchy.

The video vignette below shows some of the Features and States of the tutorial key being entered, including the Numeric Feature State.

Rearranging Entities and Features and States

The arrangement of Entities, Features or States may be altered at any time using a ‘drag and drop’ method. This has two modes of operation.

A simple ‘drag and drop’ using the mouse key only will place the moved item as a Child or a Sibling of the item at the new location – this can be noted by the cursor changing its shape to an icon, although the Builder will also request confirmation to make the moved item a Child or Sibling of the item at the selected location.

Where the ‘drag and drop’ operation is disallowed an icon will be shown.

Reordering siblings is achieved by the same ‘drag and drop’ method. For example, dragging an Entity that sits above it’s siblings to one below it will reposition it below the Entity the drop operation ends on.

2. Merge ‘drag and drop’ – If the Control key is depressed during the drag operation this will trigger the Merge mode for the move operation. Rather than moving the selected nodes to the destination, they will be merged to it. That is they will not be copied to the destination, after the merge process they are removed (deleted) from their original location.

The Merge mode applies when moving a Feature (and any of its Features and/or States) or States. When merging one Feature to a destination Feature the merging process will combine the Features and/or States, including their underlying scores. The destination Feature label will be replaced by the selected Feature’s label. If you merge one State to another State, the selected States score will be merged to the destination State and the destination label retained. The selected State (that was moved for the merge) will be removed (deleted) after the merge process has completed.

Warning

Merging Features, States and scores cannot be undone.

Tip

You can sort Features, States and Entities alphabetically via the Sort option on the main toolbar, or via the Edit menu. The sort function will ask if you are interested in sorting just the siblings at the selected node or if you want the whole tree sorted. It's more common to sort the entire entity tree, rather than the Features tree, since Features are often structured for the end user showing the easiest Features to answer to the hardest.

Importing Entities and Features

For the purpose of learning how to import data start with a new key , via the main toolbar or via the File menu option. Save your current key first, if you wish to keep what you have been working on.

As with the manual process for adding Entities or Features, you specify the type of data you are wanting to import by first giving either the Entities or Features panel focus by clicking anywhere within the panel or its title bar. The panel that has focus will have a blue title bar while the panel without focus will have a grey title bar.

Entities

Select the Entities Panel, then from the Tools menu (found on the main top toolbar) select the ‘Import Entities’ option. The Import Entities dialog will open. Within the dialog you can either type or paste one or more Entities. To structure the Entities into a hierarchy each Entity should be entered on its own line and tabs used to specify the hierarchy. For some users typing in Entities via the Import Entities dialog will be faster than using the Entities Panel context menu. For example, type the following:

Camarophyllopsis
darwinensis
kearneyi

The second and third lines should start with a single tab. Leave the ‘Append to tree’ option selected in the dialog and click the ‘Add’ button. You will then see the three Entities imported into the Entities Panel with ‘Camarophyllopsis‘ as a root Entity with ‘darwinensis‘ and ‘kearneyi‘ as children.

Try the same process except this time let’s get the Entities from an existing text file. To do this, first start a new key to see the process without worrying about existing data and then, open the tutorial Entities text file (found in the ‘tutorial’ folder of the Lucid Builder installation folder) in your favourite text editor (e.g. Notepad++) and selected all the text (normally Ctrl + a is the select all shortcut) and copy it (Ctrl + c). Notice how the Entities are structured into a hierarchy using tabs?

Once the Entities are copied to your clipboard open the Import Entities dialog, via the Tools menu (ensure you have the Entities Panel selected first, otherwise the Import option may be for Features). Paste the Entities (currently held in the clipboard) using Ctrl + v shortcut.

You should now see the Entities within the Import Entities dialog. Click the Add button, leaving the ‘Add to tree’ option selected. After the dialog closes you should see all the pasted Entities now present in the Entities Panel and structured in the same way as the tab representation.

Tip

Entities entered via the Entities Import dialog should always be placed on separate lines, regardless if you want to create a hierarchy or not.

Features

Select the Features panel, then from the Tools menu select the Import Features option. The Import Features will open. Within the dialog text area you can type or paste Features and States. As with Entities the structuring of these is important as it tells the Lucid Builder what the entered item is (i.e. A Grouping Feature, Multistate Feature or a State etc). Each Feature or State should be entered on its own line and tabs used to “position” it in the desired hierarchy.

Type the following features to see how the Lucid Builder will treat the elements when imported:

Cap
shape
convex to hemispherical
conical
umbonate
plane
dominant color
white
red
pink
orange
Gills
attachment to stem
free
just reaching the stem
attached to stem (broadly or narrowly)
Spores
Length range (micrometres)

Remember to use tabs to indent the Features and States. From the above structure we can see ‘Cap’, ‘Gills’ and ‘Spores’ will be Grouping Features, while ‘shape’, ‘dominant color’, ‘attachment to stem’ will be Multistate Features since they have one or more end points at the same level (‘leaves’ of the tree). Add the typed Features and States to the Builder.

The ‘Length range (micrometres)’ will also be treated as a State of ‘Spores’, since the Lucid Builder doesn’t ‘know’ we want this to be a Numeric Feature. Fortunately after the import Lucid Builder will allow us to change this from a State to a Numeric Feature. To do this right click on the ‘Length range (micrometres)’ State and select from the context menu Modify…Change State to Feature.

Lucid Builder Convert State to Feature context menu option.

Once the State has been made a Feature we can tell the Builder it now needs to be a Numeric Feature. This done by making sure the ‘Length range (micrometres)’ is selected, then via the left properties panel select the Items tab. Towards the bottom of the Items tab panel you will see a Feature Type dropdown box.

Lucid Builder Convert Feature to Numeric Feature in the Items Properties panel.

From the dropdown select the Numeric Feature option. The Builder will warn if any scoring exists for the feature it will be lost. Select ‘Yes’, since we don’t need to worry about any scores.

Lucid Builder Feature to Numeric Feature confirmation dialog.

You should now see the ‘Length range (micrometres)’ receive the Numeric Feature icon indicating it is indeed now a Numeric Feature.

Tags Entities, Features

Lucid Player v4

Lucid Player Comparing Entities – The Differences function

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 11 August 2020

Suppose you have used the Player to try to identify a specimen, and at the end of the keying session several Entities remain.

One way of trying to decide which of these is correct would be to access the information (photographs & fact sheets) associated with the Entities. This may allow you to discriminate the Entities further.

A better way may be to view a list of Features that differ between the Entities. You can access such a list by clicking the Differences button on the toolbar. This will open the Differences window.

The Differences window has two panels. The upper panel lists contains a dropdown list of Features that differ (that is, are not scored the same) for the remaining entities. When you select a specific Feature, the lower panel shows how the Entities are scored for the listed Features.

Differences in the upper panel are sorted by their utility for separating the Entities, therefore it is recommended you review the differences from the top down.

Lucid Player Differences dialog example.

Tags Differences, Entities

Lucid Player v4

Lucid Player Using Subsets of Features and Entities

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 11 August 2020

Subsets are groups of Features or Entities pre-defined by the author of the key.

For example, Feature Subsets in a key to beetles may allow you to restrict Features Available to display only wing features and head features, or all simple and easily observed features. Entity Subsets may allow you to restrict the Entities panels to display only the beetles in a particular taxonomic subgroup, or only common species.

Subsets are particularly useful for keeping Features Available and the Entities panels free of unnecessary items. For example, if you have a key to plants and your specimen has no fruits, it is useful to remove all fruit features using subsets. Functions such as Best will be more useful if you restrict Features Available to show only Features that it will be possible to address.

To choose a Subset (if the key’s builder has specified subsets in the key), open the Subsets list by clicking the Subsets button on the toolbar.

Note

You may choose more than one subset.

If you are using subsets and need to keep the same subsets when you restart the key, make sure that the Retain selected subsets on key restart? option is checked. If this item is unchecked, subsets will be set back to show all features and entities when the key is restarted.

Tags Entities, Features, Subsets

Lucid Player v4

Lucid Player Finding Features, States and Entities

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 11 August 2020

To search for a Feature or State, activate one of the Features panels (Features Available or Features Chosen (if visible)) by clicking within it or its header bar, then choose the search option on the toolbar.

To search for an entity, activate one of the Entities panels by clicking within it or its header bar, then choose the search option . on the toolbar.

Within the Search dialog, type the text to search for in the Find text box. Click the Find button to initiate the search. If Case sensitive option is checked, the search will be case-sensitive (that is, an item called Item will not be found if the search text is item). If the Whole word option is checked, the search will match only whole items (that is, an item called Item One will not be found if the search text is Item or One).

The Find function can also be invoked using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F or the Find… button on the main toolbar.

Tip

The browser also has a find text within the current web page option. Using this option will find text displayed on the page, however it won't find text within a closed feature or entity nodes as this data has not yet been loaded, where as the search option provided by the Lucid Player will.

Tags Entities, Features, Finding, States

Lucid Player v4

Lucid Player About Entities and Features

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 11 August 2020

Entities in Lucid are the things the key aims to identify. Depending on the scope of the key, the entities may be different kinds of things. For example, in a key to the palms of Brazil, the entities will be species of palms, in a key to the families of flies of the world the entities will be fly families, in a key to minerals the entities will be types of minerals, in a key to disorders of sweet potatoes the entities will be the causes of disorders found in sweet potatoes. In Lucid we use the term entity because it applies to all the possible things that a key may be designed to help identify. Lucid itself doesn’t know whether the entities are species of plants, families of flies, minerals or diseases – they are all simply entities to Lucid, and are all handled in the same way.

Features in Lucid are characteristics of the entities in the key that can be used to describe each entity.

Lucid Player - Simple feature example — Lucid Player – Simple feature example.

For example, in a key to minerals one feature may be the types of crystalline form shown by the mineral. Amongst the minerals in the key, there will be a number of different crystal forms – cubic, tetragonal etc. The different possibilities for crystal form are called states of the feature. States of a feature are indicated in the Lucid Player by scoring boxes preceding the state names.

In Lucid there are three main types of features.

Lucid Three Types of Features — Lucid – Three Types of Features.

Multi-state features, like those shown for the crystal form of minerals, have two or more alternative states.

Numeric features, by contrast, are ones in which real numbers (integer or decimal) are used to describe the entities. Numeric features are normally used for lengths, widths, ratios and counts. For example, a key to butterflies may use a numeric feature for the length of the forewing, or for the number of segments in the antennae.

Grouping features are features that contain other features.

Tags Entities, Features

Lucid Builder v4

Lucid Builder Entities Tree – Context Pop-up Menu

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 7 August 2020

Additional commands available via the context pop-up menu. The context menu can be accessed by right clicking on an item (or an empty section) within the Entities Tree panel.

Add sub menu

Add Entity

Adds a new Entity to the Entities tree. The Entity will be added at the same level within the tree based on where in the tree the context menu was initiated. The Add Entity option will only become available to select when it is logically appropriate. For example, the Builder will not allow an Entity to be created at the same or child level of a Specimen.

Add Entity as Child

Adds a new Entity as child of the selected Entity within the Entities tree. The Add Entity as Child option will only become available to select when it is logically appropriate. For example, the Builder will not allow an Entity to be created at the same or child level of a Specimen.

Add Entity as Parent

Adds a new Entity as a parent of the selected Entity within the Entities tree. The Add Entity as Parent option will only become available to select when it is logically appropriate. For example, the Builder will not allow an Entity to be created as a parent if a Specimen was selected.

Add Specimen

Adds a new Specimen to an existing Entity within the Entities tree. See the help topic on Specimens for more information.

Copy

Copies a selected Entity or Specimen to the system clipboard. A copy of the item may then be pasted elsewhere in the Entity tree.

If a copied item has children, all descendents will be copied along with the selected item. If an item has scores or other properties associated with it (media etc), all scores and properties will remain associated with the copied item and will be pasted with it.

Paste

Pastes a previously cut or copied item as a child of the selected item.

If a cut or copied item has children, all descendents will be cut or copied and pasted along with the selected item. If an item has scores or other properties associated with it (media etc), all scores and properties will remain associated with the item and will be pasted with it.

Paste as sibling

Pastes a previously cut or copied item as a sibling of the selected item.

Rename

Renames a selected item in the Entities tree. The item will be placed into edit mode for renaming. Rename can also be invoked by pressing the F2 key.

Delete

Deletes one or more selected Entities or Specimens.

If the Builder Preferences option Prompt for confirmation during tree delete operations is checked, a Confirm Delete dialog will appear to confirm that the operation should go ahead. If Prompt for confirmation during tree delete operations is unchecked, the item will be deleted immediately without confirmation.

The selected item will be permanently deleted from the key. This operation cannot be undone.

Modify sub menu

The Modify sub menu allows you to convert Entity types (Grouping Entity, Entity, Specimen). The menu option available is determined by the Entity type selected. For example, a single Entity can be converted to a specimen if it is the only child Entity. To convert all child Entities of a Grouping Entity, you must first select all child Entities, then initiate the context menu. All the selected child Entities will then be converted to Specimens. The same process applies for converting Specimens back to regular Entities.

Change Entity to Specimen

Converts one (or more) selected child Entities to Specimen Entities. All children of the Grouping Entity must be selected for conversion since a child Entity and Specimen Entity cannot be at the same level within the Entity tree.

Change Specimen to Entity

Converts one (or more) selected Specimen Entities to child Entities. All Specimens of the Parent Entity must be selected for conversion since Specimens and Entities cannot be at the same level within the Entity tree.

Filter Tree sub menu

The options within the Filter Tree sub menu depend on what Entity Subsets have been created. All Entity Subsets will be listed as menu options. Each available Entity Subset can be toggled on or off by selecting or un-selecting the Subset within the menu. When an Entity Subset is toggled on, the Entities scored for that Subset will be displayed, while non-scored Entities for that Subset will be hidden. That is only Entities that are scored in the selected Subsets will be displayed.

Media sub menu

Attach HTML File

Allows the attachment of a HTML (or PDF) file present within your keys Media folder to the selected Entity or Specimen.

Attach HTML Url

Allows the attachment of a Url based resource (E.g. web page) to the selected Entity or Specimen.

Attach Image File

Allows the attachment of an image(s) to the selected Entity or Specimen. Multiple image files can be attached via the file browse dialog by using Ctrl (individual selection) or the Shift key (block selection).

Attach Description

Attaches a Description to the Entity. Descriptions cannot be attached to a specimen. For the Description to contain a description about the Entity you must create and/or attach a Description template (output template) for the key and associate this and the transform template (e.g. Sentence, paragraph or table etc) via the Key Options…Descriptions tab. See Creating Natural Language Descriptions help topic for more information.

Export sub menu

Export Media

Creates a Media List file containing references to all media associated with the selected Entity or Specimen. The Media List file will be automatically saved to the same location as the key (I.e. Where the .lk5 file is located). The file name is automatically generated based on the tree path to the Entity or Specimen and will include the selected items label.

See Media File help topic for more information.

Export Scores

Creates a LIF3 file containing all the score information associated with the selected Entity or Specimen for all Features scored. The Export Scores function can be initiated from the Feature or a State of the Feature. The LIF3 file will be automatically saved to the same location as the key (I.e. Where the .lk5 file is located). The file name is automatically generated based on the tree path to the Feature or State and will include the selected items label.

See the LIF3 help topic for more information.

Tags Entities, Menus

Lucid Builder v4

Lucid Builder Finding features, states and entities

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 29 July 2020

To search for a feature or state, activate the Features panel by clicking within it, then choose Find feature/state from the main menu.

To search for an entity, activate the Entities panel by clicking within it, then choose Find entity.

In the Find dialog, type the text to search for in the Find text box. Set the direction of the search using the Forward or Backward radio button options to specify a direction to search from the currently selected item.

The Match Options allow for a case sensitive search and/or to only match on whole words.

To replace existing text enter the find text along with the replacement text in the Replace With text box. Then to selectively replace text use the Find button followed by the Replace button. Alternatively use the Replace All button to replace every instance found of the Find What text.

Tip

The Find function can also be invoked using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F or the Find button on the main button bar.

Tags Entities, Features, Finding, Searching, States

Lucid Builder v4

Lucid Builder Deleting Items in the Feature and Entity trees

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 29 July 2020

Items in the Features and Entities trees may be deleted at any stage by selecting the item and pressing the Delete key, using the Delete button on the toolbar or choosing Delete from the Edit menu.

If the Builder Preferences option Prompt for confirmation during tree delete operations is checked, a Confirm Delete dialog will appear, to confirm that the operation should go ahead.

Lucid Builder Delete Entity confirmation dialog

If Prompt for confirmation during tree delete operations is unchecked, the item will be deleted immediately without confirmation.

The selected item will be deleted from the key.

Tip

This operation can be undone via the undo operation (ctrl + z).

Warning

If an item to be deleted has children, all descendents will be deleted along with the selected item.

You may also delete several items at a time, by selecting multiple items before choosing Delete:

To select a contiguous range of items, select the first item then hold down the Shift key and select the last item in the range.
To select a non-contiguous range of items, hold down the Control key while selecting each item.

Tags Delete, Entities, Features

Lucid Builder v4

Lucid Builder Sorting items in the Feature and Entity trees

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 29 July 2020

Items in the Features and Entities trees may be sorted into alphabetical order. Select an item in either the Features or Entities panel, then click the Sort button or choose Sort tree items from the Edit menu.

A dialog box will provide three options.

Choose Sort all descendents to alphabetically sort the descendents of the selected feature;

Choose Sort siblings to alphabetically sort the siblings of the selected item;

Choose Sort entire tree to sort all items in the tree.

Tags Entities, Features, Sorting

Lucid Builder v4

Lucid Builder Moving items in the Feature and Entity trees

Post author By wp_help_lucidcentral
Post date 28 July 2020

Applies to Matrix key projects

Arranging and managing items within the Features and Entities panel can be achieved by using standard operating system methods of Drag and Drop and Cut, Copy and Paste. The Lucid Builder will automatically prevent any movement of items that don’t match logical groupings or inbuilt rules that maintain data consistency.

Drag and Drop items

Items in the Features and Entities trees may be moved to new positions in the tree by dragging and dropping. An item may be dragged to any position within its tree as long as the following rules are not violated:

A feature may not be dropped in a position where it would become the sibling of a state
A state may not be dropped in a position where there is a sibling feature already present.
Items may not be dropped as siblings of existing items with identical names

The Builder will confirm what you wish to do with the item(s) on the destination you have dropped to, via a confirmation dialog.

Lucid Builder Confirm drop action — Lucid Builder Confirm drag and drop action dialog

You may also drag and drop several items at a time:

To select a contiguous range of items, select the first item then hold down the Shift key and select the last item in the range
To select a non-contiguous range of items, hold down the Control key while selecting each item.

To drag a selection of items:

on Microsoft Windows or Linux, click and drag using the left mouse button.
on a Macintosh, hold down the Shift key while dragging.

Tip

You may only drag and drop a multiple selection if all the selected items are siblings.

Merge Drop

Merge Drop allows two items to be merged by dragging the merge item and dropping it onto a recipient item while holding down the Ctrl key.

Merge Drop has an important role to play when importing a key for merging, particularly for resolving conflicts after the import. These conflicts can often be resolved by manually merging items using Merge Drop.

Merge Drop can be used in the following ways:

State merging: Dropping a state onto another state will result in scores of the dropped state being merged with the receiving state using the score merging rules defined under Import Merging. The receiving state retains its name and the dropped state is removed from its original position in the tree.
Feature merging: Dropping a feature onto another feature will result in its states, and all scores for those states, being merged with the receiving feature. Dropped features must be of the same type as the receiving feature (that is, you may not merge a multistate with a numeric feature). In the case of multistate features, any states present in the dropped feature that are not present in the receiving feature are added to the receiving feature. Any common states have their scores merged using the score merging rules defined under Import Merging. The receiving feature retains its name and the dropped feature is removed from its original position in the tree.
Entity merging: Dropping an entity onto another entity will result in the scores for both entities being merged together. The receiving entity retains its name and the dropped entity is removed from its original position in the tree.

Moving items using Cut, Copy and Paste

Items in the Features and Entities trees may be moved to new positions in the tree using the familiar Cut, Copy and Paste operations.

To cut or copy an item, select it by clicking on it with the mouse then either:

Choose Cut or Copy from the Edit menu or right click context pop-up menu, or

Click the Cut or Copy buttons on the toolbar (see below), or

Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-C (copy) or Ctrl-X (cut)

To paste an item that you have copied or cut, select another item in the tree then either:

Choose Paste as child or Paste as sibling from the Edit menu.
Click the Paste as child or Paste as sibling buttons on the toolbar, or;
Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-V.

Note

There are restrictions on where an item can be pasted in the tree. For example, a state cannot logically be pasted as a child of a feature that has other features as children, and a feature cannot be pasted in a position where it would become a sibling of a state. Accordingly, some menu options and buttons will be disabled depending on the positions in the tree where you are attempting the paste.

You may also paste several items at a time, by selecting multiple items before choosing Cut or Copy:

To select a contiguous range of items, select the first item then hold down the Shift key and select the last item in the range.
To select a non-contiguous range of items, hold down the Control key while selecting each item.

Note

You may only paste a multiple selection if all the selected items are siblings.

Tags Entities, Features, Moving