User Defined Attribute Graphical View

Relationships between a User Defined Attribute (UDA) and its associated element types display in the Graphical View window of the Lexicon window. The UDA element must be selected in the Dictionary Explorer. Right-click and select Graphical View. The graphical view for the selected element is displayed.

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

• List views

• Spider views

  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.

List Views

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 (indicated as an 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 display as indicated in the graphical view.

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

Spider View

In this example: when the UDA is applied to fewer than 20 elements, the UDA indicates 11 elements that are dependent on the UDA. The relationships display as indicated in the graphical view.

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