Once you have logged in, you will be directed to your LEXUS workspace. In the following chapters, we will show how you can (1) Create new lexica (See Section 2.1) (2) Add and modify lexical entries (See Section 2.3.2) (3) Import lexica from Toolbox or XML (See Chapter 3) formatted lexica, (4) Search through one or multilple lexica (See Chapter 4) and create Filters (See Section 4.2) on word lists (5) Create and apply sort orders (See Chapter 5) and (6) set Access rights (See Chapter 6) to other registered LEXUS users.

Before that, let us have a brief look at the workspace itself to see how it is organized:

The workspace opens by default with the left frame in the Lexica tab (Figure 1.2), in which all the lexica available to you are listed in alphabetical order. The lexica can include lexica from other workpsaces for which you have read and/or edit rights. These so called 'shared' lexica are indicated with an icon of a hand holding a blue book. Lexica for which you are the first owner are indicated with a blue book icon.

When one of the lexica is higlighted, the Lexicon tab in the right frame displays information like Name, Description and Notes). Also in the right frame you will find the tabs Readers and Writers, which is where the access rights for other LEXUS users can be defined for the selected lexicon (See Chapter 6).

Figure 1.2. LEXUS workspace

The second tab of the left frame is Sort orders. It shows the sort orders that have been created within the workspace. The Sort order editor becomes active when in the Sort orders tab is selected: using this editor you may modify existing sort orders or create new ones. The sort orders can be used in all lexica in the workspace (See Section 5.2).

The third tab in the left frame is Queries and searching. In the window under the tab you may specify queries over one or multilple lexica (See Section 4.1). Queries are predefined searches which can be stored and re-used. Ad hoc search can be either used to do a simple search using keyowords (See Section 4.1).

In top frame of the workspace, you will find the LEXUS main menu: File, Switch to, and Help. File is rather straight forward, where you will find Save and Import (see Section 3.1 and Section 3.2). Switch to allows you to switch between different editors in LEXUS and the workspace, and to access ViCoS (See Chapter 7). Help redirects to the online manual. To the right on the main menu bar you see the workspace username, from where you may Log out. The LEXUS icon holds information on the LEXUS version. Please check the version number with the version number of the manual you are using.