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Select Specification Package
When you start to work with the Specification Manager, you identify the Package in which to build your specification. When you open the facility, the Specification Package defaults to the first top-level Package in your model, as indicated by the 'Package path' in the Navigator toolbar. If this is the Package in which you intend to work, you can go on to configure the display and create or review elements.
You might, however, want to use a different Package that:
- Already exists in the model and already contains elements of the specified type
- Already exists in the model but contains no elements of the specified type
- You will create underneath the current Specification Package, or
- You will create underneath a different Package elsewhere in the model
You can perform these tasks using the 'native' facilities of the Navigator Toolbar.
Access
Click on a Package in the Browser window, then use one of these options to open the Package in the Specification Manager.
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Design > Package > Specification View |
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Right-click on Package | Specification Manager |
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Locate Existing Package Containing Specification Elements
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In the Navigation toolbar, right-click on the name of a Package in the Package path, and select the 'Go to Package' option. The 'Select a Specification Package' dialog displays. This dialog presents your model hierarchy, filtered to show only those Packages that already contain elements of the type you selected as the Specification element type (which is identified in the 'Element Type' field at the top of the dialog). |
Select Specification Type |
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To expand a Package and reveal sub-Packages it contains, click on the expansion arrow next to the Package name, or click on the . (If a Package does not contain any sub-Packages, it has no expansion arrow.) |
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Click on the required Package, and click on the . The Package name displays in the 'breadcrumb trail' in the toolbar, and the elements in the Package are shown in the main body of the Specification Manager window, filtered to the specified type if appropriate. |
Specification Manager - Overview |
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Customize the columns and/or add elements to the Package. |
Customize Columns Adding Elements |
Locate Existing Package
It is possible that you want to create your specification in a Package that has been set up for this purpose but does not yet contain any elements (or any elements of the specified type). In this case the Package would not be included in the 'Select a Specification Package' dialog. To select this Package for the Specification Manager:
- Right-click on the Package name in the Browser window and select 'Specification Manager' from the context menu, or
- Select the Package in the Browser window, then press , or
- Click on the Package name and on the 'Design > Package > Specification View' ribbon option
The Package name displays in the view header and Toolbar.
Create New Package
This method creates a new Package underneath the current Specification Package.
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From the ribbon bar, select 'Specification-Specify > Specification > Package > New'. The 'New Package' dialog displays. |
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In the 'Name' field, type the name of the new Package. (Optionally, you can also select a radio button to automatically create a new diagram in the Package.) |
Add a Package |
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Click on the . The new Package becomes the current Specification Package in the Navigator toolbar. The Package is also added to the Browser window, underneath the previous Specification Package. |
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Customize the columns and/or add elements to the Package. |
Customize Columns Adding Elements |
Create New Package Elsewhere in the Model
This method creates a new Package underneath a different Package in the model.
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From the ribbon bar, select 'Specification-Specify > Specification > Package > New'. The 'New Package' dialog displays. |
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Click on the beside the 'Owner' field. The 'Select Owner' dialog displays. |
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Browse through the model and click on the existing Package under which to create the new Package. Click on the . The 'Owner' field in the 'New Package' dialog is updated. |
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In the 'Name' field, type the name of the new Package. Optionally, you can also select a radio button to automatically create a new diagram in the Package. |
Add a Package |
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Click on the . The new Package becomes the current Specification Package, named in the window toolbar. The Package is also added to the Browser window underneath the selected parent Package. |
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Customize the columns and/or add elements to the Package. |
Customize Columns Adding Elements |