Your Primary Tool

The Diamond Mind Organizer is the primary tool used to create or modify leagues, teams, and players. If you're not familiar with this tool, a word of introduction is in order.

To access the Organizer, choose Organizer from the View menu at the top of the main screen. The following window appears:

NOTE: The contents of this display will vary, and may even be blank, based on the particular database you are working with.

The tabs across the bottom allow you to switch easily from one category of items to another. When you click on a tab, the main body of the window shows a list of all items of that type. Each list shows the name and several useful attributes of each item.

Across the top is a row of buttons that, when clicked, allow you to create, copy, modify, delete, import, or view one or more items in the list. If a button is deactivated (grayed out), it means that command is not applicable to items of the type in the currently active tab.

To execute some commands (modify or delete, for instance), you must first select one or more items from the list so DMB knows which item(s) you want the command to act on. To select a single item, click once with the left mouse button. To select multiple items (usually appropriate only when you want to delete several things at once), use the techniques described in the Selecting Multiple Items in a Listtopic. (This link carries you to another topic in this Help file; when you have read it, click on the Back button to return to this tutorial.)

You can also invoke commands by right-clicking on the list of items. This causes a popup menu to display with the commands that are appropriate for the currently active tab.

WARNING! If you wish to modify or delete an item using the popup menu technique, you must first left-click to select the item, then right-click to display the popup menu. If you wish to delete one or more items, keep in mind that the item(s) to be deleted are the ones that are highlighted. If, for example, you select the second item in the list, then right-click on the fourth item and choose Delete, it's the second item that is deleted. Right-clicking on an item to display a popup menu DOES NOT select that item for deletion.

If you double-click on an item, DMB immediately carries out a default command. For most items, the default command is Modify, so the appropriate modification window appears immediately. Double-clicking on a player displays his Profile (because player modification is something that most users rarely or never do).