Selecting Elements in the Diagram

Selecting by Clicking

• A click replaces the previous selection with the element selected.

  

  If you click on the background grid, Innovator selects the element which surrounds that point. Let's look at the example above: if you click to the left of the node called "Leistung bewilligen", the surrounding node "Transaktion" is selected. If there is no surrounding node, the diagram itself is selected.

• If you also keep the Shift or Ctrl key pressed, the available selection is extended or an element already selected is removed from the selection. The action switches between both the "selected" and "not selected" states of an element in the diagram.

  

Selecting using a Rubber Band

Before pulling a rubber band, you need to press the Shift key and keep it pressed throughout selection; this is because moving the mouse without the key pressed is used for moving the diagram section shown..

• All nodes which are completely within the rubber band are selected when the Shift key is pressed and the rubber band is dragged over them

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• All nodes which are partially dragged in the rubber band are selected when the Shift and Ctrl keys are pressed and the rubber band is dragged over them.

  

Further Selection Options

The Select Allcommand in the ribbon (or the shortcut keys Ctrl+A)

• Selects all diagram nodes if no other element is already selected in the diagram

• Selects all diagram elements of the same type as the primary selection if an element is already selected in the diagram