🚀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 Value Set Content

6. Create a Release

7. Edit Clauses

8. Delete Clauses

9. Create and Edit Value Set

10. Merge Value Set

11. Create a Second Release

12. Compare Value Sets

13. 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.

Snowray supports authentication via Google or Microsoft accounts.

Create a Value Set

To create a resource, press thebutton from the Resources page. Then select Value Set as the resource type, fill out the required fields, and press.

Create a New Value Set

📎 Read more about creating Value Sets:

pageCreate

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:

pageAuthoring

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 Value Set

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

📚pageResources

Check Value Set Content

To take a look at the members of a Value Set in a hierarchical view, navigate to the Content tab.

If you would like to see where the concepts represented by the clauses are located within the hierarchy, press thebutton and sync the selected clauses with the tree.

Review Value Set Content

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 Value Set Release

Creating a release automatically changes the Resource status to active.

📎 Find out more about creating a version:

pageRelease 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 Value Set Clauses

📎 Read more about authoring:

pageAuthoring

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 Value Set Clauses

📎 Find out more about deleting:

pageDelete/Retire

Create and Edit Value Set

To create a resource, press thebutton from the Resources page. Then select Value Set as the resource type, fill out the required fields, and press.

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:

pageCreate

📎 Find out more about adding clauses:

pageAuthoring

Merge Value Set

To merge a Value Set into another, navigate to the authoring page of the Value Set into which you want to merge additional content by pressing the button. Then press thebutton and select the Merge value sets option. In the pop-up wizard, 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:

pageMerge

Create a Second Release

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

Create a Second Release for Value Set

Compare Value Sets

To start comparing Value Sets, navigate to the Releases tab, and press thebutton next to the version.

Compare Value Set Versions

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

pageCompare

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 the desired format, the export process will start immediately.

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

Export a Value Set

📎 Read more about supported export file formats:

pageExport