Editing Answers
A finished matrix is not frozen. You can type over any answer, re-extract one cell, one column or a whole selection, and add documents and questions to a run that has already finished. This page covers every one of those, and what each costs.
Most of it needs edit access. With view-only access the mutating controls are disabled and say "View-only access" on hover, while reading, asking and exporting stay available.
Where the edits happen
Everything on this page starts from the grid: a cell for one answer, a column header for a whole question, a row tick box for a batch of them.
Correcting one answer
The cell inspector is where a single answer is corrected. Click any cell to open it, then Edit in the footer.
The answer is replaced by a text area holding the current value, with the placeholder "Type the correct answer…" when it is empty.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Edit | Inspector footer | Swaps the answer for an editable text area |
| Cancel | Above the text area | Abandons the change and restores the extracted answer |
| Save answer | Above the text area | Stores your wording as the cell's answer. Disabled while the box is empty |
Saving confirms with "Answer updated". From then on the cell carries a small pencil marker, and hovering it says "Edited by you". Manually edited answers are protected from extraction re-runs; use Edit to change them again.
Moving to another cell with the inspector's previous and next controls closes the editor without saving.
Re-extracting one answer
Re-run in the inspector footer re-extracts just that cell. Its tooltip says exactly that. The button reports its progress in place, and the new answer replaces the old one when it lands.
While the matrix run itself is still working, Re-run is disabled and explains why: re-running is unavailable while the matrix is running.
The By document and By question views carry the same action on each card, as Re-run this answer, so you do not have to open the inspector to use it.
The other inspector actions
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Ask | Inspector footer | Opens the Assistant on Chat with this cell attached as context |
| Open in Document Review | Inspector footer, far right | Takes this document into Document Review. If a completed review already covers it, that review opens; otherwise you land in the Document Review composer with the file preselected |
| View source | On the Cited source row | Opens the document beside the grid at the cited page, with the passage highlighted |
Column actions
Every column header carries an actions control, labelled "Column actions". Its menu is the whole of what you can do to a question after the fact.
| Menu item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Auto-fit column | Sizes this column to its content |
| Auto-fit all columns | Does the same to every column at once |
| Expand to reading width | Widens the column for long text. The item then reads Collapse column |
| Reset all column widths | Returns every column to the default. Only offered once something has been resized |
| Ask about this column | Opens the Assistant on Chat with this question attached as context |
| Re-run this column | Re-extracts this question for every document |
| Edit question | Opens the question modal on this question |
Editing a question after the run
Edit question opens the same modal used when the matrix was set up, including its answer type, currency code and allowed-values fields. See Configuring questions.
Category describes the question's topic and supplies its heading when no custom column label is set. The optional column label is separate. Editing preserves existing labels and compatible type settings.
Saving updates the definition first. Changing extraction instructions marks it Needs refresh and leaves existing answers visible. Use the separately priced column re-run to refresh them. Renaming the category or label alone updates the display without requiring extraction.
Re-running a column
Re-run this column opens a confirmation naming the column and showing the estimated credit cost, eligible documents and protected answers. The button reads Re-run column.
Existing answers remain visible while it runs. Results refresh when it completes, with updated, protected and failed counts. Manual answers are preserved, including edits made while extraction is running. Failed extraction retains the previous answer.
Acting on one document
In Matrix, tick a document's checkbox to show the selection toolbar below the results. There is no separate Actions column. Open and Remove require exactly one selected document; the other selection actions are described below.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Open | Opens the selected document's results |
| Remove | Detaches the selected document and deletes its answers |
Remove is disabled during extraction, with view-only access, or when the matrix is down to its last document. A matrix must keep at least one document.
Choosing it opens a confirmation naming the file. It is explicit about the consequence: the extracted answers are deleted permanently, while the document itself stays in your File Library. Remove carries it out and reports how many answers went with it; Cancel backs out. Removing charges nothing.
Adding a question
Add question in the toolbar adds a column to a matrix that has already run.
- The question modal opens empty. Fill in Category, Question and an Answer type, plus any type-specific fields. Column label (optional) provides a separate custom heading. See Configuring questions.
- A cost confirmation follows, headed Add question. It states that the new column extracts an answer for every document in the matrix and that existing answers are untouched, and shows the estimated credits.
- Add & extract runs it. Cancel backs out.
The new column arrives filled, and the screen confirms with "Question added."
Adding documents
Add documents grows the matrix by rows.
- The existing Files panel opens. An inline selection band lists the new document names and excludes files already attached to the matrix. The Files panel remains interactive; uploads use its normal controls.
- Select Review selection to review those exact files and their credit estimate. Returning to selection and changing the files clears the old estimate. Confirmation stays disabled until a valid estimate is available and the balance is sufficient.
- Add & extract extracts only the new documents against the matrix's current questions, in the same activity.
New rows show document names and explicit queued, extracting or failed states. Existing answers remain visible. Progress and completion feedback distinguish unfinished work from a completed answer that was not found in the document.
Add documents is disabled once the matrix holds 50 documents, and says so on hover.
Working on many rows at once
In Matrix, ticking a row's checkbox shows the selection toolbar below the results, outside the table scroller. The header checkbox ticks and unticks the current page. Selection is preserved across pages and cleared when you switch to By document or By question. Those views use card navigation without selection checkboxes.
| Control | What it does | When it appears |
|---|---|---|
| Ask | Opens the Assistant on Chat with the selected cells attached. | Always |
| Review | Hands the selected documents to the Document Review composer. It stages and navigates; it never starts a review, so the cost is confirmed there | Once the run has finished |
| Re-run | Re-extracts every selected cell, pacing the requests, with one summary when it finishes | Always |
| Export selected | Opens the export modal scoped to the selected rows | Always |
| Clear selection | Empties the selection and hides the bar | Always |
The bar counts what is selected, and a bulk re-run reports honestly: how many answers succeeded, how many failed, and which documents the failures were in.
Re-run and Remove are disabled for view-only access. Reading, asking and exporting remain available; actions also respect the current busy state.
Re-running the whole matrix
From the run list, a completed row offers Re-run and a failed row offers Retry. Both start the matrix again as a fresh run rather than editing this one, so the original stays where it is.
What editing costs
Correcting an answer by hand is free. Removing a document is free. Everything that asks the model again costs credits: a single cell re-run, a column re-run, a bulk re-run, adding a question, and adding documents. Each of those shows its estimate before it commits, and blocks itself if your balance is short. See Credits explained.