CA ERwin Data Modeler r8 New Feature Guided Tours › Diagrams, Subject Areas, Layout, and Customization › Workspace Customization

Workspace Customization

Use the following steps to become familiar with workspace customization.

  1. Click View, Windows and specify the window panes you want to see or hide by selecting or deselecting them on this submenu.
  2. If a pane, such as the Model Explorer, is visible only as a tab, it is considered hidden. Hover your mouse cursor over a hidden pane’s tab to unhide the pane. Then, click the “push-pin” icon Bulk Editor Pushpin to Turn Off Auto Hide at the upper right corner of the now visible pane. Doing so turns the push-pin icon vertical Bulk Editor Pushpin for Auto Hide and docks the selected pane. Now you can continue.
  3. When a pane, such as the Model Explorer, is visible on your workspace you may select it and drag it by clicking and holding the title bar.

    Note: The selected pane undocks from the workspace border to become a floating window. Try doing this with the Action Log pane.

  4. Holding the Action Log Pane as selected in Step 3, notice the appearance of the dropping guides that indicate the available docking locations. Move your mouse cursor over any of the docking locations; the area where the pane will dock along the workspace border is highlighted. Release the mouse button, and the pane is docked in that location.
  5. If the window panes are already docked together and appear as tabs in a single docking pane, click and drag an individual tab and drop it anywhere in the workspace to create a standalone floated or docked pane. To dock panes together in a pane group (that is, they combine to create multiple tabs in a single dockable pane), drag one pane over another and select the center icon on the docking guide. Create a pane group using the Action Log and the Advisories panes.
  6. Click and drag the Overview pane over the Bulk Editor pane, and select one of the edge targets of the docking guide that appears within the Bulk Editor pane. Notice how the panes have been grouped together in a single pane separated by a splitter. You can now auto-hide either of the combined panes (click the push-pin icon so it becomes horizontal) while leaving one of the panes docked. When your mouse hovers over the hidden pane’s tab, the pane will slide out so you can make use of it.
  7. You can close CA ERwin Data Modeler after customizing your workspace the way you want using the previous steps. Now open CA ERwin Data Modeler again, and verify that all of the window panes are in the same position as you had customized them before closing the application.