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Page Editing Functions
When you select Edit from the Pages menu, the Edit Pages dialog will be opened. In this dialog, you can add, rename, clear, cut, copy and paste an SDL page. The items in the dialog will be described below:
The Page List
This list includes all SDL pages in the SDL diagram. The operations available in the dialog, are only possible to perform if a page is selected in this list.
Edit
This button opens the selected page in the SDL Editor.
Cut
This button removes the selected SDL page from the diagram and saves it in the clipboard buffer. The information in the Organizer that is dependent on this page, will also be removed.
If the page contains reference symbols and these have an underlying structure in the Organizer this structure will be restored when you paste the page in a new position. See Cutting, Copying and Pasting Reference Symbols.
The button is dimmed if the object you have selected is not an SDL page.
Copy
This button copies the selected page to the clipboard buffer.
The button is dimmed if the object you have selected is not an SDL page.
Paste
This button pastes a previously cut or copied page into the current diagram.
The Paste button will be dimmed if:
- The clipboard buffer is empty.
- The current clipboard contents would lead to a syntax violation in the target diagram.
The SDL Editor checks that the contents of the page are syntactically correct. If required a warning will be issued. Then a new dialog is displayed, where you should assign the page a new name. You can specify:
- The new name of the page (two pages with the same name are not allowed within a diagram)
- Possibly, an autonumbered name (see The Autonumbered Option)
- If the new page should be pasted before or after the current page
Clear
This button removes the selected SDL page from the diagram. A confirmation dialog will be issued before the page is removed, and the SDL Editor will automatically rename autonumbered pages.
If the page contains reference symbols and these symbols have a substructure, this substructure will be removed from the Organizer. As there is no undo for the Clear Page command, a warning will be issued and it is possible to keep the substructure as a new hierarchy instead.
Move up
If an SDL diagram page is selected and you click the Move up button, the page will be moved up.
The undo function in the Organizer and in the SDL Suite will have no effect on page moves. It is, however, easy to undo a page move operation by just moving the page back again.
Move down
If an SDL diagram page is selected and you click the Move down button, the page will be moved down.
The undo function in the Organizer and in the SDL Suite will have no effect on page moves. It is, however, easy to undo a page move operation by just moving the page back again.
Add
This button opens a dialog where you can change some settings before new page is created:
- If autonumbering is turned off, you may specify any pagename, which must be in keeping with SDL conventions. If two pages are given the same name X the names will automatically be renamed to X_1 and X_2. The enumeration character can be chosen by the Editor preference Page*EnumerationCharacter.
- If autonumbering is on (the default), the page is automatically named using the next available sequential number within the diagram (1, 2, etc).
- If the page is to be inserted before of after the current page.
- If you add a page to a process or process type diagram, you can select if the new page should be a graph page (the default) or a service interaction page.
- If you add a page to a block or block type diagram, you can select if the new page should be a block interaction page or a process interaction page.
New pages are listed in the same order that they were added.
Rename
This button opens a dialog where you can rename the selected SDL page. If the page is part of a block or block type diagram, you can also change the page type (process interaction page or block interaction page) in this dialog.
Autonumbered pages cannot be renamed, unless you turn the option The Autonumbered Option off first.
The Autonumbered Option
If the option Autonumbered is on, a numeric name (1, 2, etc) will be applied to the selected page. In a dialog, you can select to auto-number the selected page or all pages in the diagram.
The Open This Page First Option
If the option Open This Page First is on, the selected page will be the page that will be displayed by default when you open the diagram. Only one page at the time can have this option set.
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