Structured Specification Selected Text Context Menu

Create

Create a glossary definition or a new element based on the highlighted text.

Glossary definition

New element

Link Step to Use Case

Either incorporate the actions of an existing Use Case element, extend an existing Use Case element or invoke a Use Case element, as the action of the selected step. Selecting the appropriate sub-option displays the Select Use Case dialog, which you use to browse for and select the required Use Case element.

Any text in the Action field is overwritten by the link to the Use Case, except for the invoke action where the following link is added to the end of the Action text:

( Invokes: <Use Case Name> )

Select Use Case

Link to existing Element

(Uses and Results fields only.) Create a Realization or Dependency relationship to a Requirement, Feature or other element elsewhere in the model.

You select the element and connector types from submenu options, which then display the Select Element dialog, which you use to browse for and select the required element.

Select Element

Insert context reference

Add a reference to an element stored elsewhere in the model, and create an entry for the element in the Context References tab.

Selecting this option displays the Select Element dialog, which you use to browse for and select the required reference element.

Context References

Select Element

Structured Specification Floating Toolbar

Insert glossary definition

Insert an existing glossary term at the cursor position. To select the term, double-click on it in the displayed list.

When you select the term it is inserted into the field as highlighted and underlined text, which displays the definition when you move the cursor over it. If you highlighted part of the original text, the term overwrites that text.

Manage Uses Context List

(On highlighted text or a specific cursor position in the Uses column)

Display the Manage Uses Context List dialog, which enables you to:

• Browse to or type in a context reference item
• Re-sort the list with up and down arrow keys
• Remove an entry from the list
• Enable or disable the Uses Context List facility across the model

You can resize the dialog to show the full details of context reference items

If you enable the Uses Context List facility, you do not necessarily have to use the dialog to add context list items; you can type or insert an element name from the Context References tab in the Uses column, and that name is added to the Uses Context List

If you disable the Uses Context List facility, the context list items in the Uses column are hidden

Context References Tab

Split Step

Splits the selected step into two consecutive steps.

The option is available only if you highlight a portion of the text in the selected field. The new step takes the highlighted text as its Action text.

Search for <text>

Displays a sub-menu of options for locating the selected text in a number of locations.

Code editor context menu

Undo

Undo any unsaved changes you have just made in the step.

Cut

 
Perform simple editing operations on the highlighted text.

Copy

Paste

Delete

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