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EDL Assistant

The EDL Assistant helps you to formulate EDL conditional statements for class definitions and filter definitions, and to supply sources. To start the EDL Assistant, follow these steps:

1. Select the object for which you want to formulate the EDL statement from the EDL Editor Object drop-down list.
2. Click the Assistant button. The EDL Assistant dialog opens:

   

3. Select an object from the Object drop-down list.

   The list contains the object you selected in the EDL Editor and related objects that are valid as conditions to the object selected in the EDL Editor.

4. Select an attribute from the Attribute drop-down list.

   The Attribute drop-down list shows the attributes appropriate for the selected object. You can specify an aggregate function for this attribute by clicking Aggregate (to the right of the Attribute drop-down list).

5. Select an operator from the Operator drop-down list.
6. Click the right arrow next to the Value field and enter the value or use the aids available in the dialog to construct one.
7. Click OK.

When the EDL Assistant dialog closes, your definition appears in the Expression text box of the EDL Editor.

You can use the EDL Assistant to define several conditions and connect them by means of AND, OR, AND NOT, and OR NOT logical operators.