UDET Graphical View

LEXICON User Guide

User Defined Element Types : UDET Graphical View

Relationships between UDETs, UDAs and the selected Base Types can be displayed in the Graphical View window of the LEXICON window. The UDET element must be selected as the CE in the Dictionary Explorer, right click, from the displayed menu, select Graphical View. The graphical view for the selected element is displayed.

For this example: the relationships displayed are a node for the selected UDET,:VALVCHAR and a link from it to another node, which is its base element type XPITEM.

The link (shown as a filled head arrow) represents a parent-child relationship and begins on the child and points to the parent.

Other UDET’s that have the same base element as the selected element are also shown in the view. The layout of the nodes is intended to show an inheritance hierarchy. The base element is shown at the top, the UDET elements based on it are aligned below.

When the UDET has Distributed Attributes the Distributed Attributes Graphical View can be displayed by right-clicking the UDET and selecting Navigate to from the displayed menu. The Distributed Attributes View is displayed in a new tab, for more information on the Distributed Attributes View, refer to Distributed Attributes Graphical View.