.. _InstancesPanel:

Instances Panel
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The Instances Panel is best used in conjunction with the :ref:`ClassHierarchyPanel` or the :ref:`ClassListPanel`.
It shows a table of all assets that are instances of the currently selected class.

**Toolbar Features**

* **New** is available when the current asset collection is suitable to define instances of the current class.
  For example, Taxonomies are suitable to contain instances of ``skos:Concept``, but Ontologies are usually
  not permitted to contain instances.

* **Free Text** performs a substring search across all property values for the  instances of the selected class.

* **Available batch actions** displays the :ref:`BatchActionsMenu` for the currently selected instances.

**Settings**

* **Return local results only** only displays the instances that have an ``rdf:type`` in the current asset collection,
  but not when they are from included collections.

* **Hide type column** can be used to hide the columns showing the types, saving some space.

* **Display IDs instead of labels** toggles between human-friendly labels and machine-friendly qnames.


**See Also**

* :ref:`ClassHierarchyPanel`
* :ref:`ClassListPanel`
* :ref:`CreateAssetDialog`
* :ref:`Modify_CreateInstance`

**Further Reading on TopBraid**

* :ref:`introduction`