About the Nav sidebar menu items
The Nav sidebar provides a hierarchical view of the system that is analogous to an upside-down tree. The Nav sidebar menu
displays command options when you right-click on a component item in the tree.
Figure 140. Nav sidebar popup menu
This popup menu has these options:
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Refresh Tree Node | Refreshes the Nav tree. |
| Sync Tree | Synchronizes the Nav tree. |
Figure 141. Nav sidebar popup menu
The popup menu has the following items:
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Views | Goes to any of the views of the selected component. |
| Actions | Perform any available actions on the component. |
| New | Creates a new component of standard types:
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| Edit Tags | Opens the Edit Tags window, permitting you to add or remove tags on a component. |
| Make Template | Creates a template of the selected root component, collects all associated Px and graphic files, and invokes the Template view, allowing you to configure the template for deployment. |
| Cut | Copies to the clipboard and, after pasting the copy, deletes the cut item. |
| Copy | Copies to the clipboard; the copied item remains in the clipboard. |
| Paste | Pastes the copied item from the clipboard to the cursor location. |
| Duplicate | Makes a copy in the same location (container) as the original item. |
| Delete | Removes the item from the parent container. |
| Find | Displays the Component Finder window. |
| Link Mark | Sets a selected component to your popup menu, making it temporarily available for linking from and linking to other points. |
| Link From | Links to a selected component from another component that has been marked using Link Mark from the popup menu. |
| Link To | Links from a selected component to another component that has been marked using Link Mark from the popup menu. |
| Relation Mark | Sets a selected component to your popup menu, making it temporarily available for relating from and relating to other points. |
| Relate From | Adds a relation from selected component to another that has been marked using Link Mark from the popup menu. |
| Relate To | Adds a relation to a selected component from another that has been marked using Link Mark from the popup menu. |
| Rename | Changes the name of the selected component’s actual slot name as it appears in the ORD. This menu item displays the Rename window. You can only rename one component at a time. |
| Set Display Name | Sets a display name for the selected component as it appears in a Nav tree, and in the Wire Sheet, and Property Sheet views. |
| Reorder | Opens the Reorder Points window, which provides the following commands for reordering points within the selected parent component.
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| Composite | This menu item opens the Composite Editor window. |
| Export | Exports a selected component to the oBix .xml format. |
| Refresh | This menu item updates the display of the currently active view. |
| Go Into | Re-roots the Nav tree at any arbitrary node. Right-click the node and select the Go Into command. This makes that node the new root of the tree. A special type of Bookmark saves athe nodes you have gone into. Use the pull-down to switch among them. This feature is quite handy when working with multiple stations or deep file systems and databases. |
| Pin Slots | Opens the Pin Slots window. Clicking to pin a slot makes that slot visible in the Wire Sheet view. Clicking to un-pin a pinned slot has the opposite effect. |
| Config Flags | Assigns or removes permissions flags on a component. This is available on properties in the AX Property Sheet. Right-click a property to see the Config Flags window. |
| More... | Indicates the presence of additional menu items. Click More... to display those items. |