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Time Intervals

You create and manage Time Intervals using the Interval Bar (the pale line along the top of each selected Lifeline element). Time Intervals enable you to perform various operations on transitions, such as copy and paste. They also enable you to compress sections of the timeline so that they are not visible.

Each Time Interval displays across all Timeline elements down to the last element on the diagram.

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Create Time Intervals

You can create a Time Interval using the:

·Interval Bar - Context menu
·Interval Bar - ( Shift )  key, or
·Timeline - Context menu

 

Create Time Intervals

Compress Time Intervals

 

You can compress Time Intervals to conserve space on long timelines.

Compress Time Intervals

Select Time Intervals

There are a number of ways to select Time Intervals for performing other operations.

 

Select Time Intervals

Move Time Intervals

To move a Time Interval, move the cursor over the Interval bar within the Time Interval, hold down the mouse button and drag the interval left or right.

Time Intervals can meet, but cannot overlap.

 

 

Resize Time Intervals

To resize a Time Interval, move the cursor over the Interval Bar at the start or end edge of the Time Interval, hold down the mouse button and move the edge left or right.

Time Intervals can meet, but cannot overlap.

 

 

Delete Time Intervals

To delete Time Intervals, select each Time Interval to be deleted and press ( Delete ).

Deleting the Time Interval does not delete transitions within that interval.