UDA Graphical View

LEXICON User Guide

User Defined Attributes : UDA Graphical View

UDA Graphical View

Relationships between a UDA and its associated element types can be displayed in the Graphical View window of the LEXICON window. The UDA element must be selected in the Dictionary Explorer, right click, from the displayed menu, select Graphical View. The graphical view for the selected element is displayed.

The type of view displayed is determined by how many other elements are dependent upon the selected UDA element:

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Note:

The spider and list views and the rules for displaying them also apply to the Distributed Attributes view. Refer to Define Distributed Attributes for further information.

For this example, the selected UDA element has only one dependent element. The PMGHeight node represents the UDA element, the SCNOZZLE node has a link to the UDA element.

The link (shown as a open head arrow) represents a dependency of the source node on the target node. In this case the dependency is that the SCNOZZLE element has a UDA attribute of the type PMGHeight.

In this example: when the UDA element can be applied to more than 20 elements then the relationships between the elements are displayed as follows in the graphical view.

The UDA node is shown at the top and the dependent element nodes are shown in a vertical list below. The view only displays the first 4 dependent elements, use the scroll bar to view the other dependent element nodes in the graphical view.

In this example: when the UDA is applied to less than 20 elements, the UDA is shown where 11 elements are dependent on the UDA. The relationships are displayed as follows in the graphical view.

The UDA node is at the centre and is surrounded by the dependent element nodes, this is known as a spider layout.

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