VocApp-Browse/ValSetView
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Browsing Value Sets
At present (September 2007), the editor offers two different panes for browsing value sets -- a tree view and a graph view. These panes are not linked. That is a selection in one pane does not change the state of the other.
Selecting a Value Set for Browsing
The present (September 2007) release of the tool does not provide an independent means within the value set panes to select a value set to view. The current method of initiation is to select a concept domain in the Concept Domain Tree which will cause the value set bound to that domain to be displayed in the value set panes. If the concept domain selected is the root domain for one of the HL7-defined code system, like ActClass or RoleCode the effect is to load the value set panes with all of the value sets defined on that code system.
The Va;ue Set Navigator is made up of a pair of linked panes, as seen in the figure below. The left hand pane is a tree view that displays the value set hierarchy as a branched tree (similar to the display in RoseTree) where branches may be expanded or collapsed to reveal more or less of the tree. See a later section for tips on navigating in the tree.
Whenever a node is selected in the left-hand pane, the right-hand pane is loaded with the meta data about the item, including:
- What kind of object it is;
- Its description or definition;
- its Print Name (in the case of a leaf term or specializable value set) or its Value Set Name (in the case of an abstract value set name)
- NOTE: These two values (print name and value set name are conflated under the tag "Coded Concept", and that the value set name is not displayed for specializable domains which have both a print name and a value set name
- its concept code (in the case of a leaf term or specializable value set)
- the name of the code system from which the values are drawn
- the OID of the code system from which the values are drawn
Concept Code: ACT
Code System: ActClass
Code System OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.5.6
