Creating a custom shape

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

  1. 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.

  2. Select Add to Palette menu from the mini toolbar.
    Add to Palette mini toolbar icon
  3. Type a name or identifier for the new shape in the Shape Text field.
  4. 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.
    Provide a custom shape name and a tooltip.
  5. 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.
    Add to Palette mini toolbar icon
  6. Click OK. A new custom shape is created and is available under the custom palette in the Palette Explorer view.
    Palette explorer with inbuilt and custom shapes
    Note: Embedded shapes within Custom shapes do not support links in the current release.