Working with Rating Rulers

Rating rulers are used to specify the ratings for alternatives. For general information on rulers, see the section on working with rulers.

Creating a rating ruler

Select a criterion and choose New Rating in the Model menu,
Select a criterion and click on the icon in the toolbar, or
Right click on a criterion and choose New Rating.

Rating rulers are created with default values for names. You can change these as described below.

You can also generate all weighting and rating rulers for a model at once, using the button in the toolbar.

Renaming a rating ruler

Select the name in the navigation pane and edit it, or
Right click on the rating ruler and choose Rename.

Deleting a rating ruler

Select it and choose Delete from the Edit menu,
Select it and click on the icon, or
Right click on the rating ruler and choose Delete.

Editing rating ruler properties

Select the rating ruler and choose Properties from the Edit menu, or
Right click on the rating ruler and choose Properties.

Cutting, copying and pasting rating rulers

Rating rulers may be copied or cut by either:

Selecting them and choosing Copy or Cut from the Edit menu,
Right clicking on a rating ruler and choosing Copy or Cut, or
Selecting them and clicking on the (copy) or (cut) icons.

Rating rulers can only be pasted into a criterion which does not already have a rating ruler. Rating rulers may be pasted by either:

Selecting a criterion and choosing paste from the Edit menu
Right clicking on a criterion and choosing Paste,
Selecting a criterion and clicking on the icon in the toolbar.

When copying and pasting rating rulers from one model into another, you will be prompted to create alternatives for any ratings which refer to alternatives that do not exist in the destination model.

Rating rulers can be moved to a new tree location by selecting and dragging with the mouse. Holding Ctrl while dragging will create a new copy.

In Tetra GDM, when a rating ruler is pasted, it belongs to the current user.

Viewing the Rating Rulers of other Users

When the model owner has opened a model, the rating rulers of all users can be viewed (but not edited). A rating ruler for another user is indicated by the icon, and the name of the ruler is the name specified by the user, prefixed with the user's name. As shown in the figure below, the rulers of other users can be opened, but they are greyed out, indicating that they cannot be edited.

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