Main functions available from the right-click menus

Modifying the brief description

If you right-click on the object brief description, a menu appears. This is similar to the menu produced with most text (as opposed to numerical) fields and it is shown in the figure below. It contains items whose functions are obvious. These menu items apply to the text in the Brief description field.

Figure 104: Right-click menu

Hiding status of variables and parameters

We can alter the status of an individual internal variable or parameter using the special check boxes but often it is useful to operate on a whole group of variables and parameters. We can do this using various right-click menus.

Figure 105: Hidden status check boxes

Changing the hidden status of all variables and parameters of a customized submodel

When the object being customized is a submodel, the area below the Full description button is empty but a right-click produces a menu. This can be used to hide or show all parameters and internal variables of the current object.

Figure 106: Right-click menu in the Full description area

The same menu can be produced with a right-click in the internal item area.

Figure 107: A right-click menu is available in the internal item area

Changing the hidden status of all variables and parameters of a customized supercomponent

When the object being customized is a supercomponent, right-button menus are available using:

• the supercomponent tree structure,

• the Explore Supercomponent dialog box, or

• the internal item area.

For the supercomponent tree structure, select (highlight) an item in the tree structure and operate the right button. If the selected item is the supercomponent being customized (i.e. the root of the tree), the Hide/Show applies to all the constituents. If the selected item is a constituent, it applies only to this constituent.

All constituents	Selected constituents only

For the Explore Supercomponent dialog box, if a constituent component is selected as in the figure below, a right-click menu applies only to the selected component. If no component is selected, it applies to all constituent components.

Figure 108: Right-click menu applied to a selected component

You can also hide or show labels with this menu, get help on a constituent component or get a bird’s eye view (for big supercomponents).

The right-click menu for the Internal items area is active only if you select a constituent component that has internal variables, and the result applies only to this component.