Modifying Action Diagrams › Additional Action Diagram Editor Facilities › Starting an Edit for Another Function

Starting an Edit for Another Function

To edit other functions while in the action diagram of a particular function, execute the following steps:

1. Go to Open Functions. At the Edit Action Diagram panel of the function that you are currently editing, press F15.

   The Open Functions panel appears. From the Open Functions panel you have the ability to perform any edit functions on open functions, including changing parameters, accessing diagrams, editing source, displaying usages and references, editing narrative, and changing the device design.

   

2. At the Open Functions panel, type the file name and the function name in the File and Function fields. If you are uncertain of the names type ? in the field prompts. Enter * in the File field to default to the first file in the list. Additionally, you can use function implementation names(GEN names) if that is more convenient. To open a function using the implementation name, enter the characters * and then i or I (*I or *i) in the File field and then enter the implementation name in the Function field. Implementation names are not case sensitive.

   If the function is not already on the open function list, CA 2E loads the action diagram of the open function and you can perform any necessary editing.

   If it is already on the list, you are returned to the function. You can press F15 at any time during the edit to view the open functions on the Open Function panel.

   Note: Pressing F15 to display the Open Functions panel disrupts the zoom sequence of any open function. Each zoomed function appears as a separate open function and you do not automatically return to the calling function on exit. You instead, return to the Open Function panel from which you must explicitly reselect the calling function.

3. Once you perform any editing changes, press F3 to exit, and save the function. You return to the Open Functions panel.

   The function whose action diagram you modified and saved no longer appear on the Open Functions panel, as it is no longer open.

   Only those functions you opened and have not exited remain open and appear on the Open Functions panel.