RADAR TUTORIALS PART-4

We have by now already covered the structure of the RADAR software, the Synthesis repertory and some important function keys.

Now we go to a very important step of finding rubrics and making smart search for the rubrics we dont know.

Finding Rubrics

There are two ways to find rubrics in Synthesis. The first method, the Quick Command Method (By Chapter) requires that you be familiar with the structure of the repertory. The second method does not require this knowledge.

The Quick Command Method

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As you become more familiar with RADAR, EH and WinChip, you will find that there are many similarities in how each functions. One of the consistent features throughout is the ability to quickly bring up a dialog box to perform a task without having to use the menu or tool bars. This is known as the Quick Command feature.

To find Rubrics with the Quick Command method:

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When finding rubrics with the Quick Command method, it doesn’t matter which chapter your pointer is in when you begin typing. However, you do have to be in the Repertory Window view.

1.

Begin typing the first letter of the Chapter you in which you wish to find a rubric. The Quick Command dialog box appears.

2.

Add the appropriate number of letters to bring up the desired Chapter.

3.

Press Enter. The Select Symptom Window appears with an alphabetical listing of the Primary rubrics of the Mind chapter. The plus sign next to a rubric indicates that there are sub-rubrics below that rubric.

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Type the first letter of the Primary Rubric for which you are searching. Type more letters if appropriate until the hand is pointing at the desired rubric. Press Enter. Subrubrics appear in the Select Symptom window. The Chapter and Primary Rubric appear at the top of the window.

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Continue typing letters and pressing Enter until the desired rubric appears at the top of the Select Symptom window. Press Enter again to move the pointer to that rubric in the Repertory Window.

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When using the Quick Command method, you do have to type in a sufficient number of letters to distinguish the chapter or rubric you are looking for from another chapter or rubric which may begin with the same letter or sequence of letters. When searching for Chapters, in most cases three letters will be sufficient. The exception is for the Extremities and External Throat chapters. You must type four letters to pull up these chapters.

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Type the letter

M. The Quick Command dialog box appears.

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Type the letter

I. Press Enter. The Select Symptom Window appears.

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Type the letter

F.

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Type the letter

E. The hand is pointing at FEAR.

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Press

Enter. Mind – Fear appears at the top of the Select Symptom window and the subrubrics appear at the bottom of the window.

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Type

AL. Press Enter twice. The symptom Mind-Fear-Aliens appears on the screen.

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Type

G. Press Enter. The rubrics for the Generals chapter appear in the Select Symptom window.

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Type

FO. The hand is pointing at Food and Drinks. Press Enter for that rubric.

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Type

Beer. Notice as you type each letter that the pointer gets more and more specific with each letter.

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When the hand is pointing at Beer, press

Enter.

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Type

D. Press Enter twice.

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The symptom Generals - Food and Drinks - Beer – Desires appears on the screen.

If you are already in the Chapter in which you wish to search, you can return to the Select Symptom Window quickly without having to start the search from locating the Chapter. The

backspace key changes the Select Symptom Window from Specific to General.

To use to the Select Symptom Window:

1.

Press F3.

-or- Click the Find a Symptom in the Current Repertory button. The Select Symptom Window appears.

2.

Press Backspace. The Select Symptom window changes to display one sub rubric up from where the hand is pointing in the Repertory window.

3.

Continue to press Backspace until you have reached the desired sub rubric level.

4.

Begin typing the first letters of the new sub-rubric for which you are searching.

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Press

F3. The Select Symptom window appears.

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Press

Backspace. Notice the screen changes to display the sub-rubrics under Beer.

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Press

Backspace again. Notice the screen changes to display the sub-rubrics under Food and Drink.

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Type

S A L T. Press Enter.

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Type

D. Press Enter. The Select Symptom window displays the rubric Generals – Food and Drink – Salt – Desires.

Finding Chapter Titles

If you not completely familiar with the Chapter titles in the repertory, you can access them quickly and easily with the Function keys.

To find Chapter titles:

1.

Press F2. The Select Chapter window appears. You can use this window to continue your search for rubrics, if desired.

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2.

Begin typing the name of the chapter to select the desired chapter.

3.

Press Enter. The Select Symptom window appears. Continue selecting desired symptoms

Searching for Rubrics

You may be trying to identify a rubric, but can’t locate one which fits your client’s symptom well. The Quick Command window will allow you to search for a particular word and will display all the rubrics which contain that word. This will allow you to find a useful rubric without having to browse through the entire repertory. This works in RADAR because every word in every rubric is indexed.

To search for a rubric:

1.

With RADAR displaying the Repertory View, type a question mark (

?). The Quick Command window appears with a question mark in the text box.

2.

Begin typing the word on which you wish to search.

3.

Press Enter or click on OK. A dialog box appears briefly indicating that RADAR is conducting a search. Then the Result of Search by Index window appears with the search results.

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4.

Scroll through the search result to see which rubrics appear.

5.

Double click the desired rubric to display that rubric in the Repertory Window.

6.

If you wish to return to the search result, click the View Previous Search Result button on the toolbar.

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Type

?. The Quick Command box appears.

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Type

overboard.

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Press

Enter.

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Notice the number of rubrics which appear in the Result of Search by Index window.

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With the finger still pointing to the first rubric in the Result window, press

Enter. That rubric appears in the repertory window.

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Notice that there is only one remedy in the rubric.

When performing a search in RADAR, the search result will include only the word you type into the Quick Command box, and if it is a noun, will often also include the plural form. However, it will not include other words which contain the word for which you searched unless you add a wildcard indicator. The Wild card indicator in the Quick Command search is an asterisk (

*).

To search with a wild card indicator:

1.

Type a question mark (?) to bring up the Quick Command window.

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2.

Type the word for which you wish to search.

3.

Type an asterisk (*) at the end of the word.

4.

Press Enter or click OK. RADAR will perform a search for any rubric which contains the letters preceding the asterisk.

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Press

Esc to close the Result of Search window.

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Type

?. The Quick Command box appears.

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Type

claust*.

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Press

Enter. Only one rubric appears.

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Notice in the Size column, the number of remedies is zero (0).

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Press

Enter. The rubric appears which says See Narrow.

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Press

Enter again. The rubric Mind, Fear, Narrow Places, in appears.

You may also be searching for an expression using the index. For example, if you are searching for Fear of Cats, just using Cats may get you many more rubrics that are useful. But you can use parts of the expression to get rubrics which contain those words.

To search for an expression:

1.

Type ?. The Quick Command window appears.

2.

Without putting a space after the question mark, type the first word for which you wish to search. Press the space bar. Type the second word.

3.

If you wish to include additional words in the search, press the space bar between each word.

4.

Press Enter. The Result of Search window appears with options which contain the words you entered in the Quick Command window.

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Type

?.

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Type

fear

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Press

Spacebar.

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Type

cat*.

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Press

Enter. Notice the rubrics which appear in the Search Result window. A number of them include words which contain the character string CAT, but are not the Fear of Cats rubric.

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Double click on the number

10 next to the Mind, Fear, Cats of rubric. A remedy window appears displaying the remedies with appear in that rubric.

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Press

Enter to close the remedy window.

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Press Enter on Mind, Cats, Fear of.

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In the Repertory window, notice that there is blue text under the rubric entry. This is a Master Synonym.

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Press

Enter. The screen displays the rubric Mind, Fear, Cats.

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We are going to look for a rubric which describes pain in the morning after eating.

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Type

G

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Type

P

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Type

M.

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Press

Esc. This is not what we are looking for

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Type

?

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Type

Pain.

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Press

Spacebar.

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Type

Morning.

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Press

Spacebar.

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Type

After.

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Press

Spacebar.

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Type

Eating.

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Press

Enter.

Viewing Previous Search Results and Viewing Sub rubrics

When you are viewing search results, you may wish to display a rubric in the repertory view and then display the search result again without having to recreate the previous search. This can be done with the

View Previous Search Result button on the toolbar.

Sometimes the words you are looking for contain sub rubrics which relate to the main rubric. If you haven’t found an appropriate rubric in your search results, you may wish to display the sub rubrics in the search results window. Display the sub rubrics by clicking the Display Subrubrics button found in the Result of Search window.

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View one of the rubrics in the repertory.

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Click the

View Previous Search Result button (foot prints) to display the search results again.

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Click the

Display Subrubrics button. You will not see any different result with this particular search.