Hit F9 to toggle "Store to repository"

Question

Dear All,

I have a lot of practise making rapid miner work flows.
I think this suggestion will greatly boost my efficiency (and the efficiency of others).

Suggestion:
Right now you ca hit F7, to toggle break-point.
Please make F9 store the operator output to repository (using the operator name as name for repository item)

Best regards,

Wessel

wessel · Answer

Agreed.

So actually my second idea makes more sense.
Generate some auto naming convention.
This might be explicitly integrated with the store operator.
Maybe have a tick box "auto name".

Best regards,

Wessel

MariusHelf · Answer

F12 is also occupied, for manually starting the process validation. But finding a good shortcut is the smallest problem :)  I doubt that this auto-save feature will be accepted by our developer team, but we'll see.

However, here's how to view intermediate results - to store or view the results you can do the following:

- run the process and wait until it has finished
- right-click a port of the operator (the same way as if you wanted to start a new connection, just with the right mouse)
- now you should get the option to either view or to store the data that the port delivered or received

There are two problems which may occur:
- if the operator is located in a loop, you can only see the result of the last iteration
- if your process needs a lot of memory RapidMiner will discard intermediate results that it does not need anymore. In that case the only option you get at right-click is "Disconnect".

This right-clicking feature also works while you are in a breakpoint (obviously only for operators that have already been executed), and even while the process is running.

wessel · Answer

Marius  wrote:
currently F9 ist used to switch to the Results perspective - I doubt that this will be changed.

I agree, the F key was a bad example, maybe use F12.

I never quite managed to store sub-results, after a process has finished.
How exactly should I right click?
The thing is, it should remember this "save" every time I run the process.
So I can then retrieve the result later on, which nicely resets all the meta-data.
I often use the store and retrieve operator.

My alternative suggestion would be to give the Store operator a "default" naming scheme.
So when I connect the store operator, it auto-magically generates a name with which to store the object.
This would really help out a lot.
Now I have to pick my names with great care, and often spend a lot of time creating macros to set this name in an automated fashion.

If an operator has multiple outputs, it would simple store all results.