Tree Service

Take advantage of all documents within a folder tree!

    Tree Service allows you to select clauses not only from the parent folder, but from any folder 'below' the parent. 'Tree Service allows you to have a larger variety of clauses and documents immediately available to you during the clause selection process. and.

    Turn 'Tree Service' ON by clicking the 'Tree' checkbox on the Clause Selection Screen (located just beneath the left panel). The Clause Selection Screen will repaint, showing additional clauses (or paths to clauses) as discussed in the next section below:

(Note: this is a relatively advanced feature of Pathagoras. You should be familiar with basic document assembly techniques before implementing Tree Service.)

Figure 1. 'Standard' Clause Selection Screen ('Tree Service' not selected)

The above figure shows the standard view of the Clause Selection Screen. The folder that is open shows a few clauses that might be selected for a real estate contract.

Figure 2. 'Tree Service' activated.

In this view, the Tree Service has been activated. When you check the box labeled "Tree, " the screen is automatically repainted to include the subfolders in the list. The subfolders appear at the top and are displayed in {braces} and CAPS)  (The parent folder always appears near the bottom of the Clause Selection Screen, in red.)

Figure 3.  Select desired clauses (if any) from the base folder. Then, double click on a sub-folder .  .  .

Figure 4.    . . .  and its contents are displayed.

Note the {..{UP}} entry at the left. A double click on {..{UP}}  will return you to the next higher folder.

Figure 5. Make Selections for final document.

    Select clauses from any (or every) sub-folder as appropriate. Note the {.\} and {\Leases\} prefixes at the right. The text in the braces indicates from where in the tree the clauses were pulled. {.\} means the ‘root’ (base) level. The other entries denote the sub-folder(s) from where the clause came.

Glossaries vs. Folders of Clauses

  Tree Service works slightly differently depending upon whether clauses are saved in a glossary (all clauses in a single document) or as separate documents in a folder.

If the book is a folder of documents:

If there are subfolders beneath the current book, the name(s) of the subfolder(s) will appear between braces and in all {CAPS} in the left panel. If you double click on a sub-folder, Pathagoras will repaint itself and you will see the files in the subfolder, plus any sub-sub--folders in the sub-folder, plus the new entry "{..{UP}". The "{..{UP}" allows you to return to the parent folder.

If the book is a glossary:

Pathagoras 'tree service' will display all glossaries that are in the same folder as the primary glossary (the one assigned as the book.)  When you activate 'Tree Service,' the name(s) of any glossaries in the same folder will appear between braces and in all {CAPS} in the left panel. If you double click on a {GLOSSARY}, Pathagoras will repaint the Clause Selection screen and you will see the files in the selected glossary, plus the other glossaries (including the parent glossary) in the same folder.

Common to both:

When you double click a file or clause (or highlight the item(s) and press the Add>> button), the selection will be moved from the left panel to the right. A prefix within braces designating the source of the clause will be appended to the clauses name. E.g., "{subfolder}Name of Term" This may at first be a bit disconcerting to the user, but it is a necessary aspect of the routine in order to show the source of the clause. (If you have selected ‘Subjects’ as your primary display, you will not see the {prefix} because it is off screen in the right panel. You can, however, see it at the foot of, and centered between, the two clause selection panels in blue text.)

The tree service works with Pathagoras' DropDown Lists in the same way that it works with the Clause Selection screen (but not yet with glossaries, only folders). To activate the tree service, you must recreate the Drop Down list. You will see {SUBFOLDERS} at the top of the list. Click on a subfolder and the list will repaint with the files in the subfolder.

You can set Tree Service to be ‘on’ by default. The setting is in the Document Assembly Settings screen. (Click Document Assembly icon and then click <Settings>.) Click the “CSS Defaults” (Clause Selection Screen) tab and look for the ‘Tree View as Default’ checkbox at the bottom of the list.

Clause-sets can easily be created using Tree Service features. Indeed, you can create incredibly complex documents in a matter of seconds when you can pull from a large variety of clauses in a variety of folders.

Since Tree Service gives me access to all glossaries in the same folder, does it matter which one I activate? Maybe. The reason why you may prefer one glossary over another is to insure that the template or IDB mask that was associated with the particular glossary is activated. If there are no template or IDB issues, then it doesn't matter which is the primary glossary.