This came up on the email list several months ago and since then I've come across several situations where the following functionality would be useful and I imagine pretty trivial to implement: It would be nice if one could click on a class; select "Add instances"; and get a window similar to the window for "Tools>Create class hierarchy" where one can enter (or paste) a bunch of names, each name on a new line, and Protégé will make them all instances of the selected class. As far as I can tell there is no way to do this right now. Instead, one has to use the pop-up text entry window to give the name of a new instance one by one. This would be easier to do than Create Class Hierarchy because it would just be a list of individuals with no need to pay attention to indentation as with Create Class (or Property) Hierarchy. I mostly use Cellfie to load instances now but once in a while I have use cases where I just want to create a bunch of instances by copy/pasting a list from some document or just typing them in by hand and this new feature would make that much easier.
This came up on the email list several months ago and since then I've come across several situations where the following functionality would be useful and I imagine pretty trivial to implement: It would be nice if one could click on a class; select "Add instances"; and get a window similar to the window for "Tools>Create class hierarchy" where one can enter (or paste) a bunch of names, each name on a new line, and Protégé will make them all instances of the selected class. As far as I can tell there is no way to do this right now. Instead, one has to use the pop-up text entry window to give the name of a new instance one by one. This would be easier to do than Create Class Hierarchy because it would just be a list of individuals with no need to pay attention to indentation as with Create Class (or Property) Hierarchy. I mostly use Cellfie to load instances now but once in a while I have use cases where I just want to create a bunch of instances by copy/pasting a list from some document or just typing them in by hand and this new feature would make that much easier.