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Introduction
7.3
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About Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Basic Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Working with character styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
8.3.1 Defining a new character style......................................................................................... 33
8.3.2 Applying a style to a paragraph or to a sequence of characters ..................................... 33
8.3.3 Defining styles for concept and document references ...................................................... 33
Creating concepts and adding references to them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Finding missing concept reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Hypertext and Picture Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Concept Property Edition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 39
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Packages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
7.3.1 About packages ................................................................................................................ 26
7.3.2 Import/Export package (Professional and Enterprise Edition only) ............................... 27
Opening a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Adding items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7.5.1 Adding a concept or document reference to a diagram ................................................... 29
7.5.2 Adding a concept or document reference to a text document........................................... 29
Deleting items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7.6.1 Deleting a concept from the model................................................................................... 30
7.6.2 Deleting a document......................................................................................................... 30
Renaming documents and concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Modifying the type of a concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Locating a concept in the Concept Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
About the Property Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Displaying the Property Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Displaying a concept properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
9.3.1 From the explorer............................................................................................................. 40
9.3.2 From any document (text or diagram) window................................................................ 40
Predefined properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
9.4.1 Setting values for concept properties ............................................................................... 41
9.4.2 Setting strengthened conditions for actions ..................................................................... 41
Working with user-defined attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
9.5.1 Creating an attribute ........................................................................................................ 41
9.5.2 Deleting an attribute ........................................................................................................ 42
Attribute type editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
9.6.1 Displaying the attribute type editor ................................................................................. 42
9.6.2 Creating a new attribute type ........................................................................................... 42
Displaying the concept neighborhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Displaying the documents in which a concept appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Analysing the model and solving modeling issues (Professional and Enterprise
Edition only)44
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Query & Check Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
10.1.1 About the query & Check Tool ......................................................................................... 44
10.1.2 Opening the Query & Check window............................................................................... 44
10.1.3 How to perform queries.................................................................................................... 44
10.1.4 Editing the result of a query ............................................................................................. 45
Solving duplicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
10.2.1 Finding duplicate concepts .............................................................................................. 45
PART C Reporting functions - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 47
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About Web-based documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Publishing documentation:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Browsing through the web-formatted documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
About documentation contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Working with diagrams (SVG viewer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
11.5.1 Panning ............................................................................................................................ 51
11.5.2 Zooming in and out .......................................................................................................... 51
11.5.3 Finding the diagrams in which a concept appears .......................................................... 51
11.5.4 Finding the text documents in which a concept is referenced.......................................... 51
11.5.5 Locating a concept in an index ........................................................................................ 51
11.5.6 Locating a concept in a diagram...................................................................................... 51
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