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Customizing Perspectives
Whilst Enterprise Architect provides a huge range of Perspectives to select from, you might need to create others more specifically tailored to your area of work, or to expose Technologies that you have recently imported.
The methods for tailoring Perspectives to match your work environment are described here.
Before starting, review the Technologies available to you in Enterprise Architect and identify and enable those you want to apply in a Perspective, either individually or in combination. This is particularly important for any custom Technologies you have, as selecting a Perspective makes available only those Technologies it specifically contains and hides all others - including your custom Technologies.
Access
These access options display the 'Perspective Sets' dialog, through which you can create customized Perspectives.
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Start > View > Perspective > Customize List of Available Perspectives > My Perspectives Design > Diagram > Insert > 'Hamburger' icon > Manage > Customize > My Perspectives |
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Create Custom Perspective
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Click on the . The 'Select MDG Technologies' dialog displays.
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In the 'Set Name' field, type a name for the custom Perspective. Then select the 'Add' checkbox against each MDG Technology to make visible. You can click on the and then deselect the checkbox against each Technology to hide, or click on the to clear all selected checkboxes and then re-select those against Technologies you want to keep visible. If you want to group your selections by Technology, click on the 'Group Categories by Technology' checkbox. |
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When you have added the necessary Technologies to the Perspective, click on the . The Perspective name displays in the 'Create Perspective' panel, and the Technologies in the Perspective are listed in the 'MDG Technologies' panel in alphabetical order. Notice that all buttons at the bottom of the window are now enabled.
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If you prefer to:
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Click on the and, if you have finished setting up or changing a Perspective, click on the . |
Delete a Custom Perspective
If you no longer want to use a custom Perspective, you can delete it from the list of those available.
On the 'My Perspectives' tab of the 'Perspective Sets' dialog, click on the custom Perspective name and then on the
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