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Add Object Links

In the Team Review window you can create hyperlinks to elements and diagrams that are associated with a Post.

Use to

Rapidly navigate to the objects in the Project Browser
Access the element properties
Open a diagram directly from the Team Review
Create links to:
Other Categories, Topics and Posts in the Team Review window
External files from a file browser

How to

Topic

Detail

See also

Associate an element, diagram, external file or Team Review item with a message

Drag the object over the required Category, Topic of Post in the Team Review window, from the:

Project Browser
Package Browser
Model Views window
Model Search dialog or
External file browser
 

To create a link to another Team Review item, press ( Ctrl ) as you drag that item over the required Category, Topic or Post.

If it does not already exist, a Model Links folder is created under the selected Team Review item, and the link to the dragged object is added to the folder.

 

The Project Browser

Model Search

Model Views

Package Browser

Associate an external file with the message text

Click on and drag the file name from any browser into the text of the message.

The filename becomes a link to the file; click on it to display the contents of the file.

The external file name also becomes a link to the file within the message when you drag the filename onto a Topic to create a Post.

 

 

 

 

 

Add a New Post

 

To access each object in the Model Links folder right-click on the object to display the navigation context menu.

Action

Usage

Shortcut

See also

Open

Open the diagram or external file.

Alternatively, double-click on the diagram link.

 

 

 

Properties

Display the Properties dialog for the selected element or diagram.

Alternatively, double click on the element, attribute or operation link to open the Properties dialog of the object.

 

 

 

Find in all Diagrams

Open the diagram in which the element or diagram is used, or display a list of several diagrams in which the element or diagram has been used.

 

 

 

Find in Project Browser

 

Highlight the element or diagram in the Project Browser.

 

 

 

To locate, in the Team Review window, a Team Review item linked to the message, double-click on the link in the Model Links folder.

 

 

 

Delete Model Link <name>

Delete the association between the message and the object.