Using the diagram editor functionality
You can access the diagram editor's functionality
in either of the following ways:
- Toolbars
- Mouse movements on symbols in the activity diagram
Accessing diagram editor functionality: Process Designer Express
menus
Process Designer Express has pull-down menus
from which you initiate many of the diagram-related operations.
There are keystroke shortcuts and context menus for some of these
functions. For detailed information about these menus, see Process Designer Express menus.
Accessing diagram editor functionality: mouse movements
The diagram editor
recognizes the following mouse movements:
- Click the left mouse button to select a component or symbol
in an activity diagram.
The diagram editor surrounds the symbol with grey anchor squares,
called the selection border,
to indicate that the symbol is selected. To deselect the symbol,
click elsewhere in the workspace.
- Click the right mouse button to select and bring up a context
menu for the symbol.
The context
menu contains the following options:
- Properties--Displays the appropriate Symbol
Properties dialog for the selected symbol. Same as the Properties
option of the Edit menu. For more information, see the description
of the Properties option in Functions of the Edit menu.
- Font--Controls the font in which the symbol text displays. Same as the Font option
of the Edit menu. For more information, see the description of the
Font option in Functions of the Edit menu.
- Click the right mouse button anywhere within an activity diagram
(but not on a specific symbol) to navigate to the activity diagram's parent
diagram.
