Manage Saved Perspectives Dialog

Purpose

There are many different ways to design the layout of tool windows. Different layouts are suited to different modeling tasks (e.g. editing diagrams, specifying elements, creating documents). You can add the perspective for your particular requirement to the View>Windows>Arrange Windows submenu and call it again as needed.

The dialog contains functions for managing saved tool window layouts for the model editor.

• Create user-specific perspective with current settings

• Rename selected perspective

• Delete selected perspective

• Copy selected perspective

• Create model-wide perspective from a selected, user-specific perspective

• Save current settings as user-specific perspective

Prerequisites

• You require the Edit Model-Wide Configurations privilege when renaming, deleting and preparing a model-wide perspective.

• You require saved changes to rename, copy and prepare a model-wide perspective

Call

The Manage Saved Perspectives dialog appears with the View>Windows>Arrange Windows>Manage Saved Perspectives command.

Structure

The dialog consists of the list of perspectives with the filter field in the list header, the toolbar of commands and the standard button Close.

• List of Perspectives

  You can enter a name pattern in the <Filter> field above the structure content to restrict the entries displayed there.

  Icons split perspectives into two groups:

  •  Model-wide configuration
  •  User-defined configuration

  A tool tip appears for each entry when you hover over it with the mouse; it shows information, e.g. for creating model-wide perspectives.

• Command Toolbar

  The following commands can be used to manage the perspectives.

  •  New

    Creates a new user specific configuration. It will be saved with the current settings, and it will be loaded then.

  •  Rename

    Rename the selected configuration. Renaming a configuration which has pending changes is not possible. Renaming a model-wide configuration requires the privilege 'Edit Model-Wide Configurations'.

  •  Delete

    Delete the selected configuration. Deleting a model-wide configuration requires the privilege 'Edit Model-Wide Configurations'.

  •  Copy

    Create a user specific copy of the selected configuration. The copy is loaded. Copying is not possible when the loaded configuration has no pending changes.

  •  Deploy

    Create a model-wide application configuration from the selected user-specific configuration. After deployment as a model-wide configuration, the user-specific configuration is deleted. The selected configuration must not have pending changes. The privilege 'Edit Model-Wide Configurations' is required.

  •  Save

    Save the current settings to the selected configuration. If a model-wide configuration is selected, you need the privilege 'Edit Model-Wide Configurations', otherwise you can choose a name for saving the configuration user-specifically. The saved configuration is then considered loaded.

  •  Save As

    Save the current settings into a new or existing configuration, model-wide or user-specific. Saving a model-wide configuration requires the privilege 'Edit Model-Wide Configurations'. The saved configuration is then considered loaded.

  •  Discard Changes (for directly editable configurations)

    Discards the changes on the edited configuration.

  •  View Content

    Opens a dialog which allows viewing the configuration as text. Changes are not possible.

  •  Edit Content (replaces View Content for defective configurations)

    Opens a dialog which allows editing the configuration as text. In this way can a configuration be repaired that cannot be loaded anymore.

    Proceed carefully as invalid structure changes may make the configuration unusable.