Managing Public Libraries

In order to reuse local libraries, you can publish them and then work with them and see them through the Manage Libraries dialog box (Resources > Manage Libraries). See the topic Sharing Libraries for more information. Some basic public library management tasks that you might want to perform include importing, exporting, or deleting a public library. You cannot rename a public library.

Importing Public Libraries

  1. In the Manage Libraries dialog box, click Import.... The Import Library dialog box opens.
  2. Select the library file (*.lib) that you want to import and if you also want to add this library locally, select Add library to current project.
  3. Click Import. The dialog box closes. If a public library with the same name already exists, you will be asked to rename the library that you are importing or to overwrite the current public library.

Exporting Public Libraries

You can export public libraries into the .lib format so that you can share them.

  1. In the Manage Libraries dialog box, select the library that you want to export in the list.
  2. Click Export. The Select Directory dialog box opens.
  3. Select the directory to which you want to export and click Export. The dialog box closes and the library file (*.lib) is exported.

Deleting Public Libraries

You can remove a local library without deleting the public version of the library and vice versa. However, if the library is deleted from this dialog box, it can no longer be added to any session resources until a local version is published again.

If you delete a library that was installed with the product, the originally installed version is restored.

  1. In the Manage Libraries dialog box, select the library that you want to delete. You can sort the list by clicking on the appropriate header.
  2. Click Delete to delete the library. IBM® SPSS® Modeler Text Analytics verifies whether the local version of the library is the same as the public library. If so, the library is removed with no alert. If the library versions differ, an alert opens to ask you whether you want to keep or remove the public version is issued.