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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 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:

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.

Caution!

As stated in the dialog, Clear on a page cannot be undone.

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.

Note:

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.

Note:

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:

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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