An exploration into the Grid 2 XML Structure (how to make a tab in the Grid 2)
The Grid 2. It’s one of those bits of software for the AAC/Education community that I personally have a marmite obsession with. I either wake up and love it or wake up and hate it. 
One of the nice things Sensory Software have quietly to hackery geeks like me is to develop the Grid 2 user profiles as XML. This means you can tweak the settings with a text editor if you can’t find how to do it in the Grid using the GUI software. So as I let my brain ponder on what exciting dyanmic things we could do with this I discovered how to make tabbed users in the user explorer. (NB: If someone has a better way of doing this in the software then please let me know!)
- Close The grid down
- Go to the users folder in Explorer (e.g.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sensory Software\The Grid 2\Users\
- Find the Grid folder that you want to put in a tab: e.g. “ACE Assessment Grids new Nov08”
- Open Settings0/settings.xml with a text editor (not wordpad - probably notepad or a proper code editor - something that doesn’t wrap the lines or try and automagically correct your typing!)
- Do a find for explorergroup in the text file. If it can’t find that you need the section that looks like this <start> So search for that.
- If you could find explorergroup make the line look like this:
<explorergroup>ACE Centre</explorergroup>
otherwise add that line somewhere after <start> and before </start>. Make sense?! Sure it does! Change “ACE Centre” to the name of your desired tab and you are away! - Start the grid!
UPDATE:Yep, the very next day I found it.. its not *that* obvious: Right click on the user/click on the left user settings -> Grid Tab
