Configuration Editor Tool

The Configuration Editor provides you with support for the transparent and secure definition of profiles, the definition of display properties such as colors and font types, and for engineering actions, verification routines, and document structures.

Purpose

In the Configuration Editor (inoconf.exe), all elements of a model's configuration are displayed and can be edited if necessary. These include:

Profile definitions (in the context of UML 2; e.g. as base, methods or customization profiles)
Display properties such as colors and font types
Menu configuration for the individual diagram types
Engineering Actions
Verification routines
Details configuration (for the Details tool window)
Documentation structures

In the Configuration Editor, you also manage users and their roles and permissions as well as logins by users and guests to models.

You can use the Configuration Editor for creating and editing profiles and their profile elements (stereotypes, stereotype properties etc.). You can use drag-and-drop to easily assign elements in the editor.

The structure and function of the Configuration Editor supports the transparent and secure definition of profiles.

Prerequisites

Changes can be made in the configuration by the model administrator and - in Enterprise Edition - by all users that are registered in a role with the privilege Configure.

Structure

The Configuration Editor consists of the menu bar, two toolbars (top and left), a maximum of three window areas, and the status bar.

Configuration Views

The

configuration view selected in the View menu determines which profile elements are displayed in the profile tree below the profiles and whether the list of profile elements or the assignment compartment appear on the right. For the assignment compartment, the available drop-down menu is displayed at the top.

Stereotypes

All stereotype-dependent profile elements are created and edited in the Stereotypes configuration view.
Relationships

The Relationships configuration view shows the stereotype in relation to other stereotypes.
Type Systems

In the Type Systems configuration view, you can maintain the options for relational database systems that are known in a configuration for Innovator for Information Architects.
Templates

You can create templates in the Templates configuration view. The settings made in the Stereotypes and Relationships views are then used in the templates properties.
Verification Routines

You can create verification routines in the Verification Routines configuration view.
Actions

The Actions configuration view manages engineering actions.
Documentation Structures

The Documentation Structures configuration view manages the documentation structures of the profiles and the configuration of the Details tool window (details configuration).
Documentation

The Documentation configuration view is for the grouping of documentation commands.
Execution Rights

In the Execution Rights configuration view, you can assign the configured menu items (create templates, verification routines, engineering actions, and documentation commands) to the user roles in order to define the right to execute these commands for the user roles in the relevant profile.
Menus

The Menus configuration view is for the assignment of create templates, verification routines, engineering actions, and documentation commands to the corresponding menus in the Innovator model editor.

Profile Tree

In the left-hand area - the profile tree - the profile structure of the model is displayed.

In addition to the obligatory base profile, this can include as many other profiles as required.

The displayed profile elements are filtered in accordance with the configuration view in the profile tree.

List of Profile Elements

The list of profile elements is displayed as an alternative to the assignment compartment in accordance with the chosen configuration view.

The list of profile elements is shown for the Stereotypes, Type Systems (Innovator for Information Architects only), Templates, Actions and Documentation configuration views.

The profile elements created are shown for the profile element selected in the profile tree. The name and type of these profile elements are shown in the list's columns.

Assignment Compartment

The assignment compartment is displayed as an alternative to the list of profile elements in accordance with the chosen configuration view.

The Assigned objects and Not assigned assignment compartments are displayed for the Relationships, Verification Routines, Documentation Structures, Execution Rights, and Menus configuration views.

The assignment areas in the Relationships view are called Allowed and Not Allowed.

The allowed and not allowed profile elements are shown for the profile element selected in the profile tree.

Result Region

You can only view precisely one profile element's subordinate entries in the list of profile elements. However, for some tasks you require a collection of elements, regardless of the profile element in which they are contained (for example, search for elements with certain properties within a profile).

In the Result Region at the bottom, you can collect, select, and - if required - process any elements of the profile.

Information about the element is also shown in columns in the result region, as with the list of profile elements.

You can show and hide the result region in the menu View or with the corresponding icon . In the dialog Extras/Options, you can use the Pop result region automatically check box to configure that the result region should be shown automatically once an element is assigned.

Dialogs

Dialogs provide tool tips for the GUI elements. To view a tool tip, click on the question mark to the right in the dialog title first and then on the GUI element with the mouse pointer .

The tree elements are referred to as pages in the tool tips but they are referred to as tabs in the help.

Configuring the Display and Interface

The font type and color for entries imported from other profiles differ by default from those for direct entries. In the dialog Extras/Options, you can change these settings if necessary in the Fonts and Colors tabs.

You can make settings for the menu, the context-sensitive pop-up menu, and the toolbars using the commands in the submenu Extras>Customize. If there are commands missing in the context menu you can activate these yourself, if required.