Common Functionality
General Facilities : Collections
The Collections window is used to group data into collections and display Search Results. You can then implement operations on all the items in a collection in one action.
The Collections window allows you to generate collections of database elements which you need to work on. Each time you access the Collections window, in any of the modules that use it (DRAW, MODEL and SPOOL), the data collections generated is displayed enabling elements to be easily transferred between these modules.
The contents of Collections persists between applications and module switching, as well as between sessions. The data stored is per user, per project in the AVEVA_DESIGN_USER directory, for example, in Model you can add elements to Collections and then switch to DRAW to use the same data.
The Collections window consists of two parts:
The lower part of the window is the Contents grid, which displays the status of each item in the collection currently selected in the Collections grid. The Contents grid can be customised. Refer to Search Results for further information.
When you do a search, the upper pane is minimized to show only Search Results. Click Show All Collections to display more collections and if you want to show only the current collection, click Current Collection. Relative size of each pane can be adjusted to display more or fewer collections.
To create a collection, right-click on a folder in the Collection grid and select New > New Collection from the right click menu. A new collection is then created and displayed in the Collections grid with a default name, for example NewCollection1.
To change the name of a collection, right-click once on the collection name and select Rename enter the new name.
Select the required element in the Model Explorer and either right-click and select Add to Collections from the menu, or drag and drop the element into the Collections grid or the contents grid.
If you have used the Add to Collections or Add Members to Collections menu option, the element is added to the current collection.
If you have dragged and dropped the element from the Model Explorer, the element can be dropped directly onto a Collection in Collections list in order to include it in that collection. If the element is dropped outside the list of collections a new collection containing the element is created.
Alternately, select the required element in the Drawlist, and proceed as described for the Model Explorers.
Unlike the Model Explorers, multiple elements can be selected in the Drawlist, and added to the Collections grid. From the Drawlist window right-click Add to My Data. A new collection is automatically created containing the selected elements.
To remove an element in a collection from the Collections window, select the item row, then right click and select Remove Selected Rows from the displayed menu. To remove a collection, right-click on the collection and select Delete from the displayed menu.
You can give commands that act on the current list: type the command into the text box, commands can be applied to all contents in a collection (including Search Results) through the text box in the middle of the Collections window. Refer to Data Model Reference Manual, Introduction for further information on commands.
The contents of one collection can be added to another by dragging one collection on top of another. Elements can be dragged from the Explorer directly into collection by dropping them in the contents grid. Elements can be dragged to the 3D view from the contents grid. Collections can be copied between My Collections and System Collections through drag and drop.
To copy elements between collections, right click on an element, select Copy and then right-click on the Collection and select Paste.
An element in a collection can be navigated to (for example in the Model Explorer) and made the current element, select the element from the contents grid, right-click and select Navigate To.
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Refer to Move and Copy to and from Collections for further information.
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Add - Adds the current element to the 3D View.
Add Only - Will add the significant element to the drawlist but only add the given primitive(s) to the 3D view rather than all the primitives below the significant element.
Add Connected - Adds the CE and all the elements that are connected to the 3D View.
Add Within Volume - Adds the CE plus all the elements that occupy the same volume as the current element to the 3D View.
Remove - Removes the current element from the 3D View.
Remove Only - Will remove the significant element from the drawlist but only removes the given primitive(s) to the 3D view rather than all the primitives below the significant element.
Highlight Elements - Highlights the current element in the 3D View.
Unhighlight Elements - Removes the highlight from the selected element.
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Refer to Shared Collections (Groups) and Secondary Hierarchies for further information.
A dynamic collection can be created for shared collections which is a collection that does not have a fixed scope but evaluates its contents based on defined selection criteria. Right click on a shared collection element and select Edit Scope Selection to create a dynamic collection. Refer to Create Dynamic Collections for further information.
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You can add elements from the Model Explorer to the Collections window, right click on an element and select ADD CE To Current Collection or ADD CE Members To Current Collection, which will add the selected element to the current collection.
Right click on a shared collection element and select Edit Scope Selection to display the Expression Editor window.
The Expression Editor window uses a PML expression to select elements.
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Saves the PML expression results and closes the Expression Editor window.
Discards any changes and closes the Expression Editor window.
then use the MODIFIED()syntax in the scope selection.
