Users with administrative privileges can create custom palettes and add custom shapes to
it. All custom shapes can be added only to a custom palette and not to the inbuilt palettes, such as
Sketches, UML, Process, Deployment palettes.
Procedure
- Go to the whiteboard and select the shape that you want to add as a custom shape.
Your custom shape could be a modified version of an existing shape or you could copy a shape from
the external sources and paste it in the whiteboard.
- Select Add to Palette menu from the mini toolbar.
- Type a name or identifier for the new shape in the Shape Text
field.
- Optionally, type an intuitive tooltip in the Tooltip field for the new
shape. The tooltip is displayed when you hover over the shape in the Palette
Explorer and is useful to identify the shapes especially when there is a huge list of
shapes in the palette.
- You can either assign the new custom shape to an existing palette group or create a new palette
group. A list of available custom palette groups are displayed to choose from. Click the
Add New button in the Palette Group Name section to
create a new palette group.
- Click OK. A new custom shape is created and is available under the custom palette in the
Palette Explorer view.
Note: Embedded shapes within Custom shapes do not support links in the current
release.