Customizing a property sheet

Chapter 5 Using the PowerDesigner Interface

Customizing a property sheet

Since PowerDesigner can hold a rich variety of information about your model objects, property sheets can become overloaded.

The More or Less button at the bottom left corner of the property sheet allows you to toggle between displaying all the available property sheet tabs, and a subset called "favorite" tabs.

You can customize your list of favorite tabs, and access various other property sheet features, from the property sheet menu, which is accessible from the bottom-left corner of all property sheets.

Command	Description
Find in Diagram	Finds the object in the diagram, found object is displayed centered and selected.
Find in Model Explorer	Finds the object in the Model Explorer and highlights it.
Impact Analysis	Opens the Impact Analysis dialog box.
Parent Properties	Opens the property sheet of the parent object.
Customize Favorite Tabs	Opens a sub-menu, which allows you to define favorite tabs: Help – opens this help topic Display All Tabs - Displays all available property tabs for the current property sheet Display Favorite Tabs for All - Displays favorite tabs for all property sheets throughout all models Display All Tabs for All - Displays all tabs for all property sheets throughout all models Beneath the sub-menu are listed all the tabs available for the present object. Favorite tabs have a check against them. Click a tab in the list to select or remove it from the list of favorite tabs. Note that the General tab cannot be unchecked. When you check or uncheck a tab such as Notes, Rules, and Dependencies, which are common to many objects, you are asked to confirm the change for all other objects. If you click No, only the current property sheet is modified.

In the following example, all the tabs except Implementation are checked and are displayed:

Any changes in the display of tabs are immediately applied to the current property sheet but not to other property sheets that are currently open. The changes become the default setting for any property sheet of the same type.

Displaying tabs on one or several rows
You can choose to display tabs on one or several rows in property sheets by selecting Tools→General Options→Dialog, and selecting the Tabs on one row option or the Tabs on one several rows option in the Property sheets groupbox.