.. _section-Creating/Deleting an Instance

Creating/Deleting an Instance
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Click to highlight **Woman** in the taxonomy window. The **Create new instance** button in the taxonomy window becomes enabled, as shown in :numref:`figure-KB-Editor-create-new-instance-button.png`. This button can be used to create a new individual instance for class **Woman**.

.. _figure-KB-Editor-create-new-instance-button.png:

.. figure:: ../../../figs/KB-Editor-create-new-instance-button.png
   :alt: The **Create new instance** button for creating a new instance

   The **Create new instance** button for creating a new instance

Click the **Create new instance** button. A dialog box pops up prompting for the name of the new individual instance to be created, as shown in :numref:`figure-KB-Editor-create-new-instance-dialog.png`.

.. _figure-KB-Editor-create-new-instance-dialog.png:

.. figure:: ../../../figs/KB-Editor-create-new-instance-dialog.png
   :alt: **Create new instance** dialog prompting for name of new individual instance

   **Create new instance** dialog prompting for name of new individual instance

Click in the Name field of the dialog box to enable the field for edit. Type in Dolly and click **OK**. In the taxonomy window, the number of **Woman** instances increases by 1. **Dolly** shows up if we expand **Woman** in the taxonomy tree. At the same time, the **Text Editor** window shows that Dolly : Woman []. is added to family.flr. To keep **Dolly** permanently, family.flr must be saved explicitly.

.. figure:: ../../../figs/KB-Editor-new-instance-saved.png
   :alt: **Dolly** is added as a new individual instance to **Woman**

   **Dolly** is added as a new individual instance to **Woman**

To delete an individual, the right-click menu in the taxonomy window can be used. For example, in the taxonomy window, click to select **Dolly**, then select **Delete Identifier** from the right-click menu. This will delete **Dolly** as an individual instance of **Woman**, both from the taxonomy tree as well as family.flr in the **Text Editor**. To delete **Dolly** permanently, family.flr must be saved explicitly.

.. figure:: ../../../figs/KB-Editor-remove-instance.png
   :alt: Use the right-click-menu to remove **Dolly**

   Use the right-click-menu to remove **Dolly**