Tallis Composer User Interface: Overview

Composer UI Tour

The figure below is a screen capture of Tallis Composer 1.4.

Process-descriptions are displayed in Tallis both in a network view and in a tree view:

• The tree view displays the process-description’s hierarchical structure
• The network view displays task ordering according to scheduling constraints

You can view and edit task properties in the Task Properties window.

• To display a task’s properties, click on the task in the tree or in the network area.
• Note that you can hide the Task Properties to view more of the network area.

The hierarchy of a process-description is based on plans: each plan defines a new level in the hierarchy.

• You can view all the plans and their contents at a glance in the tree view.
• The network view is more suited for viewing the contents of one plan at a time.

Learn more about:

• Process-Description Properties
• Basic Task Manipulations
• Enquiry Sources
  • Collecting data
• Decision Candidates
  • Decisions: Creating a decision based on results of an enquiry
• Advanced Task Manipulations
  • Importing an existing process-description into your current process-description
• Enacting a Process-Description
  • Running a process-description in the Tester
  • Running a process-description a web browser
• Task Properties
  • Plans: Using the abort and the terminate conditions to interrupt a process
  • State Triggers: Creating a task that runs only after something else happens
  • Event Triggers: Offering the end-user a choice between tasks
  • Preconditions: Creating a task that runs only if certain conditions are met
  • Cyclic Tasks: Creating a task that re-executes N times or until a certain condition is met
  • Automatic Tasks: Creating a task that is confirmed automatically and is not displayed to the end-user
• Expression Editor
  • Expressions overview
• Data Definitions
• Web Enactment Servers
• Web Repository Servers
• Repository Explorer

View the user interface in action:

• Creating a simple task process

Try using it yourself:

• Tutorial: Create a Computerised Guideline From Start To Finish

Browse through a simple process-description:

• Cold And Flu Guide
• If you have installed the Tallis Toolset, you can find this sample in the World > Samples folder in the ACL Web Repository.
• Run this sample file
• Click here for a detailed description of this sample.

Further reading:

• Tallis User Manual
• Tallis PROforma Primer
• PROforma developers’ manual
• PROforma: Reserved Words
• Style Guide For Authoring PROforma Protocols

See Also

• Composer UI Tour
• Creating a simple task process

• Hands-on Tutorial

• Cold And Flu Guide

• Tallis User Manual
• Tallis PROforma Primer
• PROforma developers’ manual
• PROforma: Reserved Words
• Style Guide For Authoring PROforma Protocols