# Work with data selection boxes

This topic contains instructions for the basic operations with selection boxes. See also Create your data selection

Move a selection box

1.Click the margin of the box. The mouse cursor changes to a four-headed arrow.

2.Drag the box to the position you require.

3.Release the mouse button. The new box is inserted.

To move a group of selection boxes:

1.Draw a box around the boxes you want to move or click on the boxes you want to select while holding the Ctrl key.

As a result, the border of the selected boxes becomes darker.

2.Hover the mouse on the margin or the colored area of one of the selected boxes. The mouse cursor changes to a four-headed arrow.

3.Drag the group of boxes to the position you require.

Insert a box in a data selection sequence

1.Drag the selection box between two boxes, until the connecting arrow turns white.

Connect two selection boxes

1.Point the mouse to the center of the first box, press and hold the left mouse button and drag toward the center of the other box.

2.Release the mouse button when the pointer has reached the center of the other box. The two boxes are connected.

You cannot create connections from the Result box to any other box, and from any box to the Start box.

Change the selection criteria in a selection box

Follow the instructions below when you have inserted a selection box, and you want to adjust the settings to restrict/widen your selection. For example, when you have selected drug dose = 0.01 and 0.05 in the first instance, and you want to remove 0.05.

1.Locate the selection box that specifies the criterion you want to change.

2.Click the Settings button.

3.Select the appropriate values in the window that appears.

Copy and paste a selection box

Follow this procedure to quickly duplicate Filter, Nesting and Results boxes. If needed, you can always change the settings in the new selection box that is created.

1.Select one or more selection boxes in the Data profile.

2.Choose Edit > Copy, or right-click and choose Copy, or press Ctrl+C.

3.If necessary, open the Data profile where you want to copy the boxes to.

4.Choose Edit > Paste, or right-click and select Paste, or press Ctrl+V.

Note that the new selection box is given the same name as the original one, followed by a number (2), (3), etc.

Delete a selection box

1.Click the title of the box so the mouse pointer changes to a four-headed arrow.

To select a group of selection boxes, draw a box around the selection boxes that you want to delete, or click on each of those boxes while holding the Ctrl key.

2.Press Delete, or choose Edit > Delete, or right-click and choose Delete.

You cannot delete the Start box. You can delete a Result box only if another one has been inserted in the Data Profiles window.

If you delete a box within a sequence, the arrows connecting the adjacent boxes are lost. Therefore, you must re-connect the adjacent boxes (see above).

Delete a connecting arrow

1.Click the connecting arrow you want to delete. The arrows turns bold to show it is selected.

2.Press Delete. The arrow is deleted.

Create a new Result box

Create a new Result box when you want to display analysis results from different data selection criteria at the same time. For example, to calculate statistics for two groups of tracks.

1.In the Components pane, under Common elements, click the button next to Result.

The new Result box appears in the top-left corner of the Data Profiles window. Connect the selection box to other boxes.

2.Drag the new Result box to the right-hand side of the Data Profiles window, below the first Result box.

tip Click Settings in the Result box and edit its name (see below).

3.Complete the selection sequence by making a branching so that each data selection criterion ends up in its own Result box.

See also

▪Multiple selections in a data profile

Edit the Result box name

The Result boxes are named automatically as you create them: Result 1, Result 2, etc.

The Result box name is shown in the Analysis results (statistics and track plots), so it is good to give a name that reminds you from which data selection that result comes from.

1.Click the Settings button in the bottom-right corner of the box.

2.Enter the new name in the Name field.

Snap to grid

The data selection boxes automatically snap to a grid. You can change this by clicking the Show/Hide button on the toolbar and selecting/deselecting the two Grid options (Snap to Grid and Show Grid).

Zoom in and out

The toolbar of the Data Profiles window shows three zoom icons:

▪Zoom in (Ctrl+.). Click this button until all data selection boxes fit in the window.

▪Zoom out (Ctrl+,).

▪Fit all. Click this button to fit all data selection boxes into the window.

The Data Profiles window is ‘dynamic’: this means that it expands when you move data selection boxes to the right. In this case, you can navigate ‘from left to right’ in the Data Profiles window by using the scrollbar at the bottom. use the Zoom to fit button on the toolbar to make all data selection boxes visible.