The Design Window Selector

Browse

Opens or returns focus to the Browser window at the 'Project' tab. The Browser window displays your model objects and features in a number of arrangements, reflecting the content and structure of your model. The Browser window is the primary mechanism for browsing and exploring your model and is the jumping off point for many of the most important features in Enterprise Architect. The 'Project' tab displays the full structure and content of your model

Inspect

Displays the Inspector window at the 'Details' tab. The Inspector window provides the facility of examining the details of an individual element, whether held in the current model or in an external data source. The 'Details' tab lists all the features and characteristics of the element, appropriate to the element type.

Focus

Displays the Focus window, a valuable tool for locating and examining items of importance from anywhere in the overall model. This window provides access to Model Views, Working Sets, and recently opened diagrams and screens.

Trace

Displays the Traceability window, in which you can quickly see what elements are immediately linked to the selected element and in what relationships, and what elements are indirectly linked via a chain of relationships. You can also select a diagram and explore the relationships of all elements in that diagram. The window is mirrored in the 'Trace' tab of the Inspector window.

Search

Opens the Find in Project window, through which you can run a wide range of system and user-defined searches to extract and collate information on aspects of your model.

Navigate

Toggles the display of the Navigator toolbar, which identifies the location of the Package or diagram you are currently working in, and provides options to change the focus to another level of the Package's branch, perform relevant operations on the Package, and locate other Packages in the model.

Summary

Displays the Summary window, a brief, read-only summary of the general properties of the currently selected:

• Element (including Packages)
• Attribute
• Operation
• Test
• Maintenance item or
• Resource

System

Displays the System Output window, which shows the data that Enterprise Architect generates during each of a range of processes. The data from each type of operation generally has its own tab of this window.

New Package

Displays the 'New Package' dialog, through which you can create a new Package as a child of the current node.

New Model from Pattern

Displays the Start Page at the 'Create from Pattern' tab (the Model Wizard) , through which you can generate a Package with a subordinate structure from a range of model templates.

New Diagram

Displays the 'New Diagram' dialog, through which you can create a new diagram under the current Package, from a range of diagram templates.

New Element

Displays the 'New Element' dialog, through which you can create new elements within specific tool-sets.

Properties

Displays the Properties window, which provides all the properties and characteristics of the selected object such as an element, diagram, connector or operation.

Notes

Displays the Notes window, on which you can add brief notes or longer descriptions and supporting information on the model object.

Document

Displays the Document window, in which you can read, create or edit a more formal or lengthy document on the current element - a Linked Document. You can also run searches to locate other elements that have Linked Documents, and work on those documents as necessary.

Specification Manager

Displays the Specification Manager window, a simple document-based interface to a selected Package or diagram in the model, providing the means of creating and reviewing elements as text representations of objects in the model.

Database Builder

Displays the Database Builder window, a tailored interface for the data modeler, allowing all database-related modeling tasks to be performed in a single location.

Schema Composer

Displays the Schema Composer window, a versatile tool for quickly and easily defining a variety of formal schema from a model, without needing to use a profile or stereotyped elements when building the definition of an XSD (or other) document.

DMN Editor

Displays the Decision Table Editor, through which you use the Decision Tables facility as a simple method of applying the Decision Model and Notation (DMN) standard to model how a decision is made, and generate code for the decisions.

External Systems

Displays the External Data window, which you can use to integrate the data from external providers such as Jira and Polarion into an Enterprise Architect model.

Package Matrix

Displays the Relationship Matrix, a spreadsheet display of relationships between model elements within a Package, or between elements in two different Packages. You can filter the selection of relationships shown.

Gap Analysis

Displays the Gap Analysis Matrix, which you use to analyze model artifacts to identify potential gaps between solutions. It helps you highlight shortfalls between the original or current solution and the proposed improvement - items that have been deliberately omitted, accidentally left out, or not yet defined. 

Toolbox

Opens the Diagram Toolbox, a panel of icons that you can use to create elements and connectors on a diagram. There are numerous pages available in the Toolbox, each page providing the icons for elements, connectors or patterns for a specific type of diagram under a specific Toolset or Perspective. You can also use the Toolbox icons to add elements to:

• A Package through the Specification Manager and
• A Package or an element in the Browser window

Layout Tools

Displays the Layout Tools window, which helps you to set the elements on a diagram in one of a number of regular arrangements such as a circle, a box or a fan.

Diagram Layers

Displays the Filters & Layers window at the 'Layers' tab, which helps you to hide or expose parts of any diagram in segments that represent any concept that is the basis for separating or grouping the elements on that diagram. The layers can be compared to transparencies laid on top of one another in a stack, each transparency showing one grouping of elements on the diagram.

Diagram Filters

Displays the Filters & Layers window at the 'Filters' tab, which helps you to modify the display of diagram components so that the required items are immediately identified, without damaging the structure and integrity of the model.

Insert Related Elements

When a diagram is open this option displays the 'Insert Related Elements' dialog, which helps you to add a group of elements to a diagram based on a defined relationship type and element types.