Specifying elements in CLAD
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Before you can start eliciting constructs, you have to specify elements that you wish to investigate. You have to do it in two steps.


Specify the number of elements
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In the first step, you have to enter the number of elements. You can do so either while creating a new project, or while creating a new interview. That depends on the selection of the option in "Create a new project" section where you indicated that you want interviews to share common elements or not.

Specifying the number of elements in case all interviews in a project share common elements.

.. image:: _static/Specify-elements-COMMON.png
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Determining the number of elements in case you want to specify elements on per interview basis.

.. image:: _static/Specify-elements-IND.png
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Add the elements
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In the second step, you add elements to your project or interview. The picture below shows an example of adding various car brands as elements.

.. image:: _static/Specify-elements-ELEMENTS.png
   :align: center