Basic Input

[Arthur Downing]

I am really struggling with the basics. I have a file for a club in
England. I have name and unique ID numbers for all the members, then
the names of proposers and seconders, which I have have matched with
IDs. How do I import this into Visone. It might be helpful to add a
tutorial to the wiki pages with the basics because they actually don't
explain what to do unless you are using the tutorial files.

Best

Arthur

[Uwe Nagel]

you're right about the tutorial part, but for now at least a short answer:

assuming, you want a graph with links proposer->seconder
put your id's in one file with the format:
proposer1 seconder1
proposer1 seconder2

and so on (that is, one line for each directed link) and use the id's
for proposers and seconders, use csv as file suffix (export from excel
should also work)
You can import that as a link list file.

next, import names (and other attributes, e.g. age) for your nodes by
creating a file

"id","name","age"
1,"Burt","37"
2,"Karl","12"

and so on
you can import that using the attribute manager under "import & export"
note that visone needs the first row with the row names and the "id"
column in your file should match the "id" attribute of your nodes (and
the ids should of course match those used in the link list file.
Again, use csv as file suffix and export from excel should also work.

hope that helps,
Uwe