Components Editor allows the user to edit, search and organize chromatographic components stored in a library or generated by the Components Detection and Spectra Deconvolution feature. This module presents users with a complete set of management tools to delete unrelated components, add chemical structures, edit extensive data fields, process spectral trees, annotate spectral peaks and sort search hit lists for every component in a processed chromatogram. Components Editor is a modal window accessible from the Database Manager or Chromatogram Processor window using Edit Components    button. The modal window is a program module that pops up over an applications frame window. When the modal window is present, no other application window can be used. To close this module, click either the OK or Cancel button. If you click OK, the changes will be kept with chromatogram that can be saved into chromatographic library. You can edit associated components of a library chromatogram using Components Editor.

Components Editor closely resembles visually the Database Manager module, however, the processing item is a chromatographic component rather than a database record. To ensure the modules are easy to tell apart, Components Editor has a light blue bar on the left site of the window. Both modules handle almost identically, so please refer to the Database Manager description for an explanation of module functionality.

Each chromatographic component is represented by a single row. The columns contain component supplementary information. One of the columns lists Model Ion values that have been used for component detection. These values will help you quickly orient yourself and find components of interest. In most cases the model ion is the base peak in the full scan spectrum, however, if closely coeluting components have isobaric base peaks the algorithms select different model ions to distinguish the components.