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Canvas

The canvas is the drawing area, where you assemble your application by dragging elements from the catalog palette and connecting them.

In addition to dragging instances around, selecting instances and re-routing connections, you can right-click on the canvas and access the following operations:

• Paste from clipboard
• Create annotation
• Access application console
• Manage application volumes
• Edit or view the boundary of the assembly (opens the Infrastructure Editor)
• Configure the application as a whole (opens the Application Configuration)
• View application documentation

You can also perform the following application actions using the control buttons in the upper left corner of the canvas. These buttons are disabled if you do not have control access to the application:

• Start--Start the application
• Stop--Stop the application
• Restart--Restarts the application

Status Bar

The status bar shows the names of the currently selected appliances and a progress indicator for some of the longer operations (such as loading or saving an application).