When you open the Palette sidebar, it appears on the left side of the Workbench in the sidebar pane.

Figure 154.   Palette side bar with preview pane

From the Palette sidebar, you can open multiple palettes, close palettes and view modules within palettes. You may also double-click or use popup menus to perform all operations that are available from the Palette sidebar (for example, copy modules, select a module view, refresh the tree node, and more). The expandable tree provided in the palette allows you to perform actions on nodes within the palette and to navigate through the palette sub-directories. Items are displayed in the tree with an icon that represents an associated function or file type.

The palette sidebar also has a component preview pane (shown below) that displays an image (when available) of the selected component.

Figure 155.   Palette preview pane

Palette previews display in the palette when components have images configured either as the default image property or as the image assigned to the comPreviewWidget property. If no preview is associated with a component, you can add a compPreviewWidget property to a widget to display an image in the preview pane of the palette sidebar.