Working with the Design explorer view
The Design explorer view contains locations, which in turn contain
instances, on which you can work. Opening a location and right-clicking on
an instance enables you to create instances, export/import a set of instances,
search for an instance, or search for the references to an instance, open
an instance in its dedicated PDP (Pattern Driven Programming) editor, perform
various generation types...
- Creating/Opening a location
Creating a location or opening an existing location is the first
task to perform, since a location gives you access to the instances involved
in the design of your application. The location concept can then be related
to the database concept
- Importing instances
You can import instances from a file exported via the export function
of the 'Design explorer' view or output by the VA Pac
batch migration procedures. These instances will populate the selected location
of the 'Design explorer' view as well as the selected
project(s) in the 'Navigator' view.
- Exporting instances (Export wizard)
You can group instances into a file to be exported. You can save
this file, which has an xmi extension, in any directory.
Once exported, it will be available for any subsequent import via the Import function
of the 'Design explorer' view.
- Searching for instances ('Design Search' tab)
You can search for instances already present in the 'Design
explorer' view, in all the locations or only a specific one.
- Searching for the references to an instance
You can search for the instances in which your current instance
is called, i.e. its 'super references' or the instances called in your current
instance, i.e. its 'sub-references'.
- Opening an instance
Each entity has its own formatted editor in the Design
explorer view of the Design perspective. You
must open these editors to access each instance in a read-write mode.
- Generating
From the Generate choice of the Design
explorer view, you can generate the error messages and Copybooks
related to a given Data Structure, you can generate the design of a Program
and initialize the file in which you will enter the code of a Macro.
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