icon displays on the status bar indicating that some elements are
"filtered" from view."Show Options" are part of the view management features that enable you to control the presentation of information in diagrams. These options are the equivalent of "filters" in version 2.x, but the options and flexibility are greatly increased.
Together comes with 11 predefined Show Options and provides two additional ones that you can custom-define. You can find these on the View Management page of the Options dialog.
Show Options are binary
in the sense that the elements they affect are either Shown
(box checked) or Not shown (unchecked).
The default state is Shown.
When one or more options are set to the Not
shown state, the
icon displays on the status bar indicating that some elements are
"filtered" from view.
To set default Show Options:
On the Main menu choose Options | Default
Select the View
Management page and expand the Show node.
Set options as desired and click OK to finish or Apply to set changes and continue setting other options.
To set Show Options for a diagram:
Make sure that the diagram you want to affect is the current diagram
in the Diagram pane.
On the Main Toolbar click
the Diagram View Management button ()
to display the Diagram Options dialog. Select the View Management page.
Set options as desired and click OK to finish or Apply to set changes and continue setting other options.
To set Show Options for a project:
Open the project
On the Main
Menu, choose Options | Project
Click the View
Management tab.
Expand the Show node and set options as desired.
To turn Show Options on or off:
Clear checkboxes boxes to hide
the designated element(s).
Check the boxes to show the designated element(s).