🚀Getting Started

This page is dedicated to demonstrate a real-life workflow with the intention of helping users to get familiar with Snowray. As part of the workflow, users will start off by creating a value set and then editing its content. Next, after learning how to browse and edit resources, users will be introduced to release management. Finally, the released value set will be exported enabling it to be shared.

To benefit the most from the tutorial, start from the very beginning, and continue step by step, as it will walk you through the most important functionalities of Snowray.

Contents

1. 🗝️ Log in

2. ****📘 **** Create a Value Set

3. ****📝 Add Clauses

4. 🔎 Find Value Set

5. 📋 Check Member Details

6. 📆 Create a Release

7. 🖊️ Edit Clauses

8. ❌ Delete Clauses

9. ✅ Add Suggestions

10. ****📘 **** Create a Value Set and Add Clauses

11. ****🔀 Merge Value Set

12. 🤓 Optimize Value Set

13. 📆 Create a Second Release

14. 🔁 Compare Value Sets

15. ⬇️ Export Value Set

🗝️ Log in

To access Snowray, enter your username and password in the corresponding boxes of the login page, then press thebutton. You will be taken to the Dashboard page.

Login Page

📘 Create a Value Set

To create a draft resource, press thebutton from the main menu bar. Then select value set as the resource type, fill out the required fields, and press Create. For now, do not create a SNOMED CT reference set.

Create a New Value Set

📎 Read more about creating value sets:

Create

📝 Add Clauses

To add clauses, navigate to the authoring page by pressing the button. After that, you can drag and drop concepts from the terminology tree or create a new clause with the basic clause editor.

Add Clauses to a Value Set

📎 Find out more about adding clauses:

Authoring

🔎 Find Value Set

To find an already created value set that is not visible on the Dashboard (e.g. after finishing a session in Snowray and starting a new one later on), navigate to Resources from the main menu bar and type the value sets name into the filter search box.

Find a Resource

📎 To read more about finding a resource we suggest checking out the following page:

📚Resources

📋 Check Member Details

To find out more about a certain member, navigate to the Members tab and click on a concept. This will take you to its detail page where you can find more information on the selected member.

Linking between Concepts

💡 Texts with blue fonts are usually links.

📆 Create a Release

To create a release, navigate back to the value set, click the Releases tab, and press thebutton. Fill out the fields and press thebutton.

Create a Release

After creating a release, it is advised to change the resource's status to active.

📎 Find out more about creating a version:

Release Management

🖊️ Edit Clauses

To edit the value set, navigate to the authoring page by pressing the button. Hover over an existing clause to reveal theicon, which enables editing the selected clause. To persist the changes you made, click on the green checkmark.

Edit Clauses

📎 Read more about authoring:

Authoring

❌ Delete Clauses

To edit the value set, navigate to the authoring page by pressing the button. You can then delete clauses either individually or in a batch using the icon.

Delete Clauses

📎 Find out more about deleting:

Delete/Retire

✅ Add Suggestions

Suggestions are meant to help users by advising clauses that could be missing from a value set.

To reveal suggested clauses, press thebutton in the upper right corner of the authoring page. Check the boxes of ones that are applicable to your value set and press the➕button to add them.

Add Suggestions

📎 A more detailed description of suggestions can be found here:

Suggestions

📘 Create a Value Set and📝Add Clauses

To create a draft resource, press thebutton from the main menu bar. Then select value set as the resource type, fill out the required fields, and press Create. For now, do not create a SNOMED CT reference set.

To add clauses, navigate to the authoring page by pressing the button. After that, you can drag and drop concepts from the terminology tree or create a new clause with the basic clause editor.

Create Value Set and Add Clauses

📎 Read more about creating value sets:

Create

📎 Find out more about adding clauses:

Authoring

🔀 Merge Value Set

To merge a value set into another, navigate to the authoring page of the value set you want to merge into by pressing the button. Then press the button and select the value set which will be merged into the edited value set.

Merge Existing Value Sets

📎 A more detailed description of merging value sets can be found here:

Merge

🤓 Optimize Value Set

Optimizing helps to construct improved includes and excludes criteria by decreasing the number of clauses.

To invoke the function, press thebutton in the upper right corner of the authoring page. If the suggested changes are acceptable, press thebutton.

Optimize Clauses

****📎 Read more about optimization:

Authoring

📆 Create a Second Release

To create additional releases, simply follow and complete the same steps as in the Create a Release section.

Create the Second Release

🔁 Compare Value Sets

To start comparing value sets, navigate to the Releases page, and press thebutton next to the version.

Compare Versions

📎 A more detailed description can be found on the following page:

Compare

⬇️ Export Value Set

To export a value set, press thebutton in the upper right corner of your resource's page, and select a format for your export file. Once you picked your desired format, the export process immediately starts.

A progress indicator will notify you about the changes in the export process.

Export Value Set

📎 Read more about supported export file formats:

Export