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The Project Browser

The Project Browser enables you to navigate through the Enterprise Architect project space. It displays packages, diagrams, elements and element features in a tree like structure, reflecting the arrangement of elements and packages within your model. The Project Browser 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.

Access    View | Project Browser ( Alt + 0 )

Use to

Navigate your model
Drill down to specific elements
Drag and drop elements and packages within the model
Copy (duplicate) whole packages
Import/export model information
Set up version control, locking, execution analysis and many other aspects of the model tied to a particular package
Document models
Import code, xmi and csv files, database schema and other external data sources

 
If you right-click on an item in the Project Browser to display the context menus, you can perform additional actions such as adding new packages, creating diagrams, renaming items, creating documentation and other reports, and deleting model elements. You can also edit the name of any item in the Project Browser by selecting the item and pressing ( F2 ) .

Views

The Project Browser can be divided into Views, each of which contains diagrams, packages and other elements. A default View hierarchy is described below, but you can create different Views to suit your requirements:

View

Description

Use Case View

The functional and early analysis View, containing Business Process and Use Case models.

 

Dynamic View

The dynamics of your system, containing State Charts, Activity and Interaction diagrams.

 

Logical View

The Class Model and Domain Model View.

 

Component View

A View for your system components. The high level view of what software is to be built (such as executables, DLLs and components).

 

Deployment View

The physical model; what hardware is to be deployed and what software is to run on it.

 

Custom View

A work area for other Views, such as formal requirements, recycle bin, interview notes and non-functional requirements.

 

Selective Collapse:

When you are working on an expanded project in the Project Browser, you might want to locate the parent element or package of an item, and/or collapse the structure under that parent element or package.

How to

To focus on the parent element or package

Step

Action

See also

1

Position the cursor on an item within the element or package.

 

 

2

Press ( ! )  on the keyboard to highlight the parent.

 

 

3

Press the key again to collapse the structure under that parent element or package.

 

 

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