Model Views

The Model Views window enables you to encapsulate your model into the areas you are interested in. You display the window by selecting the View | Model Views menu option.

There are three types of View available:

• Model Views - stored in the model and visible to all users; you can have many of these
• My Views - stored locally on your machine and visible only to you; you can have only one of these
• Technology-defined Views - read only; each View is stored with and populated by the corresponding active MDG Technology.

When you open the Model Views window for the first time on a project, a Model Views root section and My Views root section are added for you. These can not be deleted or renamed. However you can create further Model View root nodes which you can modify and delete.

Under each root section you can then add a single level of View folders, which enable you to group Views and Favorites folders as best suit your requirements. You can also export all of the View folders containing Views from any root section as an XML file, and import a Views XML file as an additional, editable Model View root node.

A View is a folder of elements or structures that you assemble by assigning a model search to the folder. When you double-click or expand the folder, the search runs and refreshes the folder contents.

In the Model View only, you can also create Favorites folders, which give you easy access to commonly-used items in the Project Browser. To create hyperlinks in your Favorites folder to the required items in the Project Browser, drag items from the Project Browser into the Favorites folder.