CLIPBOARD FEATURE OF THE RADAR SOFTWARE.
Putting Rubrics Into the Clipboard
Once you have found the rubrics which best describe the symptoms expressed by your client, you can put them together to be analyzed. RADAR utilizes a feature called Clipboards to store and group the rubrics for analyzing. There are several ways to put rubrics into the clipboard. You can drag and drop them, use the tool bar, or use keystrokes.
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The clipboard used by RADAR for storing and analyzing rubrics is not the same clipboard used by Windows when you use a cut, copy or paste command.
To put rubrics into the Clipboard with the Drag and Drop method.
1.
Find the desired rubric using one of the methods described in the Finding Rubrics section of this document.
2.
Click on the rubric you wish to place in a clipboard.
3.
While holding the mouse button down you will notice that a small rectangle appears on the bottom of the mouse pointer.
4.
Still holding the mouse button down, drag the desired rubric over to a numbered clipboard on the left side of the Repertory Window.
5.
Release the mouse button. A small number appears below the clipboard to indicate how many rubrics are in that clipboard.
If you find the mouse to be a more efficient way to use RADAR, you can use the Take the Current Symptom tools to place the symptom in a clipboard. Using the Take Current Symptom Tool allows you to specify a variety of options with one dialog box. The Take the Current Symptom with Intensity X tools place the rubrics in the current clipboard with the specified intensity.
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When you first open RADAR 10, all the clipboards are yellow. However, once a rubric is added to a clipboard, it turns blue. If you wish to change the default clipboard, hold the Alt key and click the desired clipboard.
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To put rubrics into the Clipboard with the ToolBar:
1.
Find the desired rubric using one of the methods described in the Finding Rubrics section of this document. Notice the finger pointing at the rubric.
2.
Click the Take the Current Symptom tool on the toolbar. The Take Options dialog box appears.
3.
Click into the clipboard number to specify in which clipboard the symptom should appear.
4.
Specify the desired options in the dialog box and click Take. The rubric now appears in the specified clipboard.
The Take Options Dialog Box
The following table explains the various features of the Take Options Dialog box. Even if you do not use this dialog box to put your rubrics into the clipboard, you may wish to use this dialog box to change some of the options after the rubrics have been placed in the clipboard.
Feature
Definition
Intensity of Interrogation (Also known as Underlining)
How intense a symptom is this in the whole picture of the patient. For example, if the patient can not even say the word “snake”, you would probably choose 4 or higher. If he just get chills from seeing a snake, perhaps the intensity of the symptom is 1. The drop down box allows you to choose 0, 5, 6, or 7.
Qualification
This feature allows you to specify if this symptom has been identified as the cause of the current symptom picture (causation). For example, if an injury caused a greater systemic reaction. If you feel the symptom is so important that it must be covered by a remedy that is listed in a particular rubric, then you would check Elimination.
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Feature Definition
Create a Group
A group allows you to use two or more rubrics that are very similar without over emphasizing the importance of that idea. Please see the section on Grouping Rubrics on page 46 for more information.
Degrees
A degree refers to how strongly the symptom showed up in the proving. You can choose to only have remedies with higher or lower degrees included in the repertorization.
Subrubrics section
If you want all the remedies in the subrubrics included in the repertorization, click With Remedies of Sub Rubrics. With subrubrics of a group is the same thing, only it includes all the subrubrics of all the rubrics in a group which you may have created.
Symptom Clipboards
You can name the symptom clipboards in this area. Rather than having them numbered, you may wish to name them Mental/Emotional, Physical, etc. What ever makes sense to the how you understand the patient.
You can also use the Quick Command dialog box to place rubrics into the clipboard. The advantage of using this method is that you can also specify the intensity of the rubric as it is placed into the clipboard, as well as indicating that the rubric is an elimination rubric, a causation rubric. You can also place the rubric in any of the 10 possible clipboards with this method. If you do not specify a clipboard location, it will automatically appear in the default clipboard.
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The different clipboards do not represent different patients. They represent different aspects of one patient.
The following is a table of the keystrokes used with the Quick Command dialog box for placing rubrics into a clipboard. Other Quick Command keystrokes are NOT included in this table.
QUICK COMMAND KEYSTROKES FOR PLACING RUBRICS IN A CLIPBOARD
Keystroke
What it does
Explanation (if relevant)
+
Takes the current symptom or rubric and places it into the clipboard.
1…10
Assigns an intensity level to the rubric.
Intensity signifies how strong the symptom is in the case. Is he very afraid or just a little afraid? You can assign a level of 0 through 10. An intensity of 0 means that the rubric will not be considered in the analysis. The Vithoulkas Expert System only recognizes intensity 1 – 4.
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Keystroke What it does Explanation (if relevant)
#
This makes the current rubric a Causation rubric. The rubric will appear Red in the clipboard. If you choose both Causation and Elimination, the rubric will be pink.
Use this when something has happened which supercedes the symptom picture, for example an injury which leads to more systemic pathology. It gives that symptom greater consideration and emphasis. It does not eliminate the other rubrics. This works only with the Vithoulkas Expert System.
!
This makes the current rubric an Elimination rubric. The rubric will appear gray in the clipboard. If you choose both Causation and Elimination, the rubric will be pink.
Use this when the rubric is so important to the case that you feel you can only choose remedies that show up in that rubric. You do run the risk of missing the correct remedy using this symbol.
>1…10
Place the rubric in this clipboard.
If you do not specify a clipboard, RADAR automatically places the rubric in the default clipboard. The default clipboard icon has a small piece of paper showing in it.
To add rubrics to a clipboard with the Quick Command method:
1.
With the either the Repertory window or the Select Symptom window open, type +. The Quick Command dialog box opens.
2.
Type a number representing the intensity if desired.
3.
Enter symbols indicating Elimination or Causation, if desired.
4.
Type > followed by a number, indicating in which clipboard the rubrics should be placed.
5.
Press Enter. Notice the small number below the specified clipboard.
Type Mi.
Press Enter
Type Fe.
Press Enter
Type Hi.
Press Enter.
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When putting a rubric into the clipboard, it doesn’t matter whether you are in the Repertory Window or the Select Symptom window. Either the hand must be pointing toward the rubric in the Repertory Window, or the desired rubric must be at the top of the Select Symptom window. The advantage of staying in the Select Symptom window is that you can quickly go to another rubric.
Type +. The Quick Command Window Appears.
Type 3 to assign an intensity level.
Type # to assign a quality of causation.
Type ! to assign a quality of elimination.
Type >4 to place in clipboard number four.
Press Enter. Notice the little number that appears below Clipboard #4.
Backspace once.
Type Wat.
Press Enter.
Type +
Type 3
Press Enter. The rubric appears under clipboard #1.
Changing the Default Clipboard
In RADAR, the default clipboard is indicated on the Smart Icon bar by a blue clipboard. This is the location where rubrics appear unless otherwise specified when using the Quick Command method. You can change the default clipboard to save keystrokes, if you wish.
To change the default clipboard:
1.
Position the mouse over the clipboard you wish to make the default clipboard.
2.
Hold down the Alt keys.
Default Clipboard
3.
Click the mouse on the clipboard. Notice a piece of paper is sticking out of the clipboard to indicate that this is now the default clipboard.
Opening the Clipboard
Once you have some rubrics in a clipboard or clipboards, you may wish to open them to view the contents.
To open a clipboard:
1.
On the Smart Icon bar, click on the clipboard you wish to view. -or- Press F7. The Investigation Window opens..
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If you have put symptoms in only one clipboard, only one clipboard will appear when you press F7.
Editing the Options Assigned to a Rubric
After reconsidering the case, you may decide that a particular rubric was a greater or lesser intensity than you originally assigned to the rubric. Or you may wish to see the analysis without a particular rubric included. RADAR allows you to edit the options you have assigned to a rubric quickly and easily.
To edit the options assigned to a rubric:
1.
Click on the clipboard on the Smart Icon Bar which contains the rubric you wish to modify.
2.
In the Investigation Window, click the rubric you wish to modify.
3.
Leaving the mouse pointer on the rubric, click the right mouse button. A short cut menu appears.
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4.
Select the desired menu choice. Please see the descriptions in the Take Options Dialog box table beginning on page 36 for further information on menu choices.
Open Clipboard 4.
Click the right mouse button on the rubric Fear of High Places.
Choose Underlining from the Pop-up Menu.
Change the Intensity to 2.
Click the right mouse button on the rubric Fear of High Places once again.
Select Qualification, Eliminative. Notice the color of the rubric has changed.
Click the right mouse button on the rubric Fear of High Places a third time.
Select Qualification, Causative to remove the Causation option. Notice the color of the rubric has changed again, this time back to black.
Highlighting Symptoms
When you are viewing the symptoms in the clipboard, you are somewhat limited in how small the Investigation Window can be sized. As a result, you may wish to highlight a symptom so you can more accurately read the number of remedies and intensity which appears directly across from it in the Investigation Window.
Highlighting symptoms can be done with the mouse for a temporary highlight or through the pop-up menu which allows the user to highlight more than one symptom and provides a means for the highlighting to remain on the screen for as long as desired.
To highlight one symptom temporarily:
1.
Position the mouse on the symptom you wish to highlight.
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2.
Click the mouse and hold the button as long as desired to highlight the symptom.
3.
Release the mouse button to unhighlight the symptom.
To highlight more than one symptom:
1.
Position the mouse on the symptom you wish to highlight.
2.
Press the right mouse button. A Pop up menu appears.
3.
Select Highlight Symptom. The symptom appears highlighted.
4.
Repeat as desired.
To unhighlight symptoms:
1.
Position the mouse pointer over any symptom.
2.
Click the right mouse button. A pop-up menu appears.
3.
Select Unhighlight all symptoms.
Moving Rubrics from Clipboard to Clipboard
You may wish to move a rubric from one clipboard to another. For example, you may have accidentally placed a rubric in the wrong clipboard, or you may decide to regroup your rubrics for a different understanding of the client. For what ever reason you may choose, it is easy to move the rubrics, rather than having to repeat the search process and place them in a different clipboard.
To move rubrics between clipboards:
1.
Press F7 to open the blue clipboard or clipboards. -or- Click the clipboard you wish to open.
2.
Click on the rubric so it is selected..
3.
Click the rubric again and drag it to the clipboard to which you wish to move it. If you are displaying all the symptom clipboards in the Investigation window, you may move it there, or you may move it to the clipboard icon on the toolbar on the left side
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of the screen. -or- Press Ctrl+X to cut the rubric. Display the clipboard to which you wish to move the symptom. Press Ctrl+V to paste it into the new clipboard.
Click on the rubric Fear of High Places in Clipboard 4.
Drag it to Clipboard 1.
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