Difference between revisions of "Relation Editor"

Revision as of 14:03, 22 April 2013

Purpose

Relation Editor displaying system relations

The Relation Editor is designed to display and edit UBIK^® relationships and their respective child objects, as well as relation data in a hierarchical manner.

Basics

Appearance

Icons

The control uses the very same icons as the Class Browser.

Tooltips

The control implements the very same Tooltip logic as the Class Browser.

Node styles

The control implements the very same node styles as the Class Browser.

Node texts

The control implements the very same node texts as the Class Browser.

Drag & Drop

The Relation Editor is a source for Drag&Drop operations, any object can be dragged from here.

Relationship nodes are also targets for Drag&Drop operations. When dragging an object over such a node, it will check if the dragged object matches the right side of the respective relation (target type right).

Toolbar

Item	Purpose
View Style	Indicates or changes the View Style of the control; changing it will result in reloading of the control
Navigate to context object	Attempts to navigate to the current context object
Save	Saves the current context object

Context menu

Clicking a node with the right mouse button will bring up a standard context menu for each node. Depending on the type of node clicked there will be different options. However, the following menu items are available:

Menu	Object Type	Purpose
Remove from relation	Relation child objects	Removes the object as a child of the superior relationship
Navigate To	All	Opens the Navigation menu
Save	All	Saves changes on the object to the database
Delete	All	Deletes the object from cache. It will only be removed from the database after a Save

View Styles

The Object Editor has only one view style at the moment.

Relation content

In this view style, it is possible to add children to existing relations and to remove them.

Relation data

Relation data of a MetaProperty

Other functionality