.. _section-Editable Fields and Tables in Editing Window

Editable Fields and Tables in Editing Window
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The types of information displayed for a selected identifier in the taxonomy window depends on the identifier type. For example, properties of a class identifier such as **Man** can be found in the **Class Properties** table in the editing window. Among the properties displayed, direct properties asserted in the current file are all editable while properties inherited from the parent class are not and they will appear in gray. An example of this is shown in :numref:`figure-KB-Editor-Man-edit.png`, where class identifier **Man** is selected in the taxonomy window. Since all its properties are inherited from its parent class **Person**, they appear in gray in the **Class Properties** table and are not editable.

.. _figure-KB-Editor-Man-edit.png:

.. figure:: ../../../figs/KB-Editor-Man-edit.png
   :alt: Non-editable class properties for selected class identifier **Man**

   Non-editable class properties for selected class identifier **Man**

In order to edit **Man**’s class properties, we need to select **Person** as the current identifier. So click to select class identifier **Person** in the taxonomy tree. Since the class properties are direct properties of **Person** and are asserted in the current file, they are displayed in black in the **Class Properties** table and are all editable.

.. figure:: ../../../figs/KB-Editor-Person-edit.png
   :alt: Editable class properties for selected class identifier **Person**

   Editable class properties for selected class identifier **Person**

New entries can be added to a table using the add button located to the left of each table, as shown in :numref:`figure-KB-Editor-add.png`. Sometimes a table may appear empty in the editing window, for example, the **Superclasses** table for class identifier **Person** is empty because it has no parent class, and the **Types** and **Individual Properties** tables are also empty because **Person** has no individual content. But new entries can still be added to a table by using the add button whether or not it is empty.

.. _figure-KB-Editor-add.png:

.. figure:: ../../../figs/KB-Editor-add.png
   :alt: Add buttons located to the left of each table

   Add buttons located to the left of each table

All edits made in the **KB Editor** are not permanent until the file currently active in the **Text Editor**, in this case family.flr, is explicitly saved.