The Six Main Entity Types

The six main entity types in ATLAS.ti are:

All entity types have their own manager. See Entity Managers. The Entity Managers allow access to the entities and provide several options and functions.

To open a manager, double-click on the button in the ribbon.

Entity Managers are child or dependent window of the main editor. Child windows have some common properties:

  • They are closely related to the parent window 'knows' about changes in the child window, like the selection of an item, and vice vera.

  • They can be resized and positioned independently of their parent window.

  • They are minimized when the parent window is minimized, and they are restored with their parent window.

  • They are closed when the parent window is closed.

  • However, child windows do NOT move with the parent window.

Miscellaneous Goodies

You can copy the content of every entity, be it a document name, a group name, a code, memo or quotation name, or a node in a network and paste it into an editor or a network.

If you copy an entity name from a list into an editor, the name is pasted.

If you copy a node and paste it into an editor, the name of the node is pasted.

If you copy the name of an entity and paste it into a network, it is pasted as node. If links already exist, they will be shown immediately.