The Query Net Editor provides all the tools for expressing queries using the vocabularies developed in the Ontology Editor.
The Query Net Editor consists of a Menu Bar, a Toolbar, and a Query Net Viewer area.
To create a new query, click on the "Edit" menu item, and select the "Create Query" option, or click on the button numbered x above. The form shown below will appear, into which a name for the query should be entered (maximum 8 characters), as well as a description or comment.
Shapefile attribute names have a maximum length of 10 characters. Since a "closeness of match to the query" score will be stored in the shapefile for each mapObject, and its name will be prefixed by the letters "GQ", this leaves only 8 characters for the query name.
The details of the query can now be entered by selecting the query (left-click the mouse on its name, which will turn blue), and then clicking on the "Add Attribute" button in the Toolbar (Item X in the illustration above).
To make a copy of an already existing query, create a new query with a unique name and use the "copy node" and "paste node" options on the mouse's right-click drop-down menu to move the attributes from the source to the destination query (all child nodes will be included in the transfer).
Adding attributes to a query is explained in the section entitled "The Add Attribute to Query" Panel.
For a general discussion on how to create queries, go to the section on "Constructing Queries".
To learn about the Menu Bar, go to the section on the "Menu Bar".
To learn about the Toolbar, go to the section on the "Toolbar".
To learn how to view the results of queries, go to the section on "Mapping Results"