Video Tutorial

Videos for learning to use Solid

YouTube playlist of videos about using Solid

Orientation

1. Intro to Solid (3:37) - three primary functions

0:30 Purpose of Solid

0:50 Information about Markers

1:17 Fixing Structural Problems

1:35 Three Panes of Solid

1:56 Right Pane - Lexicon Current Record

2:30 Upper Left Pane - SFM Markers Settings

2:42 Lower Left Pane - Parsing Errors

2. Opening a file for the first time in Solid (3:11)

0:22 Locating & loading your SFM file into the Solid program

1:00 Choosing an Encoding

1:22 Encode your file to Unicode (UTF-8) before you use Solid

1:50 Choose a Template -- normally MDF

2:15 A note on SFM markers

3:00 Saving & Exiting

3:25 .solid Control Files

3. Layout of Solid (6:31) - three panes

0:20 Right Pane

0:30 Navigating Records

0:37 Structure of the Record

0:55 Colour of Markers

1:10 Lower Left Pane - Error Messages

1:24 Upper Left Pane - Control Centre

1:50 1) Marker Column

2:05 2) Count Column

2:51 3) Under Column

3:10 4) Other Columns - Documentation only

6:10 Conclusion

4. Navigating in Solid (6:03) - how to filter and move among records

0:13 Navigation Widgets in Upper Left Pane

0:40 Searching for Text

1:07 Filtering Using SFM Markers Pane

3:15 Filtering Using Error Messages

5:20 Turning Off the Filtering

5:40 Conclusion

5. Details about the settings for structure validation (22:51) - background for working with them in later lessons

Assessing and fixing the structure of your file

6. How to begin (13:06) - major skeletal structure, classes of errors. Example of tackling one-off error reports.

7. File Practices (3:43) - File management practices for more efficient recovery from possible big mistakes.

8. Example cluster (14:27) - checking the structure, adjusting the settings

9. Fix the settings or fix the data? (11:04) - ge/gn and re/rn

10. Sense level structure (26:59) - Adjusting ps/sn markers. Also demonstrates Solid functions “Data shapes” and “Data Values”.

11. Addressing the medium issues (12:40) - Errors for marker \de

12. New fields (4:11) - Handling a field that wasn’t in the template.

Using Solid for bulk fixes

13. Move marker up (25:27) - “Consider moving up: pl”. Also addresses error messages for a marker that isn’t the one that really had the problem.

14. [Not done] Remove empty markers

15. [Not done] Make markers real: sn

16. [Not done] Split on semicolon

Using Solid to get information (covered above? Is there more to say here? Like “find”?)

17. [Not done] Data values () - what are all the possible values of a specific field?

18. [Not done] Data shapes () - what markers come before or after this marker?