The Options dialog in Advanced Mode at Project level
The Options dialog is Together's main configuration control center. You can use the dialog in normal or Advanced mode. Normal mode enables setting options for a single configuration level. Advanced mode surfaces the multi-level configuration feature and enables you to set options at different levels without re-invoking the dialog (see Using Advanced Mode below). The title of the Options dialog and content can vary depending on how you invoke it. For convenience, some menu commands display the dialog with only a subset of the available options. (See Invoking the Options dialog below).
The Options dialog presents several tabbed pages of configuration options that organize the options into categories. For an overview of the categories and the types of configuration tasks you can do on each page, see Guide to the Options pages.
The Options menu enables you to invoke the full Options dialog for each of the configuration levels. It also has commands that present a subset of all available configuration options at a specified configuration level.
The following table shows the Options menu commands and function of each:
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Default |
Invokes the Options dialog and presents configuration settings at the default level. Command is always enabled. |
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Project |
Invokes the Options dialog and presents configuration settings at the project level. Command is only enabled when a project is open. |
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Diagram |
Invokes the Options dialog and presents the configuration settings available at the diagram level. Command is only enabled when a diagram is open and the Diagram pane is the active pane. |
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Default Tool Integration |
Invokes the Options dialog and presents only the Tools page at the default level. Command is always enabled. |
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Diagram View Management |
Invokes the Options dialog and presents only the View Management page at the diagram level. Command is only enabled when a diagram is open and the Diagram pane is the active pane. |
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Diagram Print |
Invokes the Options dialog and presents only the Print page at the diagram level. Command is only enabled when a diagram is open and the Diagram pane is the active pane. |
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Reload |
Reloads the underlying configuration properties files. You only need to call reload if you do file-level customization of one or more of the properties properties files while Together is running. |
The Advanced button of the Options dialog toggles Advanced Mode. In this mode, Levels column appears at the left of the dialog, and the Level and Final columns appear in the options pages. The Levels column is an indicator/selector showing the currently defined configuration levels. The currently selected level is highlighted.
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The Options dialog in Advanced Mode at Project level |
Level (in the page) indicates the level at which each configuration option is currently set. Assuming the default level definitions:
0 = Option is set at the Default level
1 = Option is
set at the Project level
2 = Option is set at the Diagram level
Final indicates that the option cannot be overridden at a level more local than the one indicated on the Level column.
Advanced mode enables you to set options at multiple configuration levels without re-invoking the Options dialog. You can change any settings that are not marked final at a "higher" (i.e. more global) level. In a local installation, you normally have complete control over your configuration and the settings at all levels. In a shared installation, you can change only those settings not marked as final by the system administrator in the shared configuration.
To access both the Default and Project levels:
Open a project
From the Options menu, choose Project to display
the Options dialog.
Click Advanced to display the levels. Only Default
and Project appear.
Set options at the Default
level first, checking Final
for all options that you do not allow to be overridden.
Set options at the Project
level next, checking Final
for all options that you do not allow to be overridden.
Click Apply to save changes as you work. Click OK to save changes and close the dialog.
To access all three levels:
Follow the steps 1-5 above.
Open the diagram(s) for which you want to set
diagram-level configuration options. You can optionally open them one
at a time, or several at once.
Select an open diagram in the Diagram pane and
choose Diagram Options from the
diagram speedmenu to launch the Options dialog.
Click Advanced.
The Diagram
level is selected in the level selector/indicator.
Set Diagram level
options as desired and click OK to close the Options dialog.
Repeat above for other diagrams as desired.
The Options dialog features new options editors displayed in a tree-like structure similar to the Inspector. In cases where an option is multi-valued, the option's node expands to show all values. Different options have different editors depending on the type of its value. The illustrations below explains the basics of this interface.
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Note the convention for check-boxes: checked = Boolean true, cleared = Boolean false. True means the option is active, engaged, or in effect. For example, checking the box for a Filter means the filter is active.
Individual options appear as nodes on an inspector tree in each tabbed page. Some options expand to show sub-options. If there are more options that can display in the page, a vertical scrollbar will appear.
Help for each page of the Options dialog, and for each of the options, displays directly in the dialog... no need for constant task switching. To see a general description of the page, click on its tab. To see Help for an individual option, click on the name.
Where the value of an option may be a multi-line expression (SourceCode | Code Templates, or View Management | Show | * | Expression for example), a browse button appears beside the edit field. This launches a multi-line editor.
For checkbox options, checked state is Boolean true or yes, cleared state is Boolean false or no. For example, in View Management's Show options, checking Show | All Members means yes (show).
You can resize the Options dialog. You can also change the width of the Name and Value columns of the dialog by dragging the separator between the column headings.
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