Remove Elements Dialog

In dynamic viewpoints, you can e.g. remove concepts in the dialog which do not belong to the desired context when modifying path length.

Purpose

To define or maintain the focus of dynamic viewpoints, you can remove concepts which do not belong to the desired context when modifying the path length or for modified concepts.

Call

If unnecessary concepts exist when concepts are removed from a model or the path length is reduced for a start element, then the Remove Elements dialog in diagram's header can be called.

Structure

The dialog consists of the Select all check box, the list of elements which can be removed and the OK and Abort default buttons.

The entries selected in the list are removed from the diagram with OK.

Removing Nodes

Prerequisites

The diagram contains nodes which are marked as superfluous.

Context

You can remove superfluous nodes from a dynamic concept diagram. Nodes may be shown as relevant nodes again when a change in the path length occurs.

You can ignore irrelevant nodes in the Add Elements dialog or by using the Ignored Nodes property.

Note

If you remove a node which is on a permissible path from the diagram, then this node is automatically moved to the list of ignored nodes. Nodes outside of the path are not added to the list when removed.

How to proceed

To open the dialog to remove superfluous concepts, click in the diagram's header on the Remove Elements icon.

The dialog of the same name appears.
To remove a concept from the dynamic viewpoint, activate the respective check box in the Remove Elements dialog.
Confirm settings in the Remove Elements dialog with OK.

The selected concepts are removed from the diagram.