Button explanation

Description

Logical Data

Start – Sends you back to the start page set for your role

Back button – Takes you back to the previous view

Name of the view – Here you can change the name of the view. Only unique names are accepted. 

Use this button to set a view to the private or public mode. By default, an auto-named view is private. When you rename a view, BlueDolphin makes it public, so other users can find it easily. 

Note: Only the owner of a private view can open it.

Other users' private views are not shown in the list of views for an object.

An administrator can preview, transfer ownership or delete other users' private views in Admin > Views.

Add new object - Lets you create a new object in the repository. The object will also be added to your current view.

Relationship tool - Lets you add a relationship between two objects. When you select the target object, BlueDolphin will show a menu with the available relationship types for the combination of the source and target object type.

Note: Possible relationships between object combinations are configured by an Administrator. 

Draw shapes - Use this button to select and add shapes to your view. 

Draw text block - Lets you add a text block to your view. 

The text block can be rotated

Label view contains three toggle buttons:

• Show object definitions - Lets you change object definition icons into text and back
• Show relationship definitions - Lets you enable or disable displaying relationship definitions
• Show all connected views - Lets you enable or disable displaying connected views. When enabled, an object, free shape, relationship or line that is linked to a view will be bolded/shadowed.

Conditional layout - Add, modify or delete conditional layout

Turn grid on/off - Enable or disable the grid to help you align objects and relationships

Turn Snap to grid on/off - When enabled, objects will be automatically snapped to the grid lines. When disabled, guidelines will be shown.

Show overview - When enabled, it shows an overview in the lower right-hand corner. By using the overview feature, you can see your position within the view, even when zoomed in.

Show legend - Enables or disables the legend

Show objectviewer – Shows the object properties on the right-hand side of the page

Show object properties. Only visible if Show objectviewer is enabled.

Search for objects in the current view

Create new view - Serves to create a new view. Select a type for the view - Architecture, Logical Data or Process. Your current view will be closed.

Busy - Indicates when BlueDolphin is busy saving your changes.

These icons show if your view is being saved or has been saved.

Switch between the edit mode and view mode.

You cannot activate the edit mode if you are not the owner of the current view or it is not shared with you.

Open view - Opens the view explorer

Undo button

Note: The "undo" option is not applicable for the deletion of elements on a BPMN view.

Extra menu options:

• Share
• Publish
• Download
• Save as
• Move
• Delete

• Make view private or public
• Make view official

All options are available in the edit mode, the view mode includes only Download, Save as and Delete.

If you are not the owner of the current view or it is not shared with you, only options Download and Save as are available. 

Object browser - Use this feature to add existing objects to your view (by using drag and drop). Only visible in the edit mode.

Modify background color

For BPMN:

Link a BPMN object to an ArchiMate object

For Architecture and Logical Data:

Link an object, free shape, relationship or line to a view

Three-dot menu lets you:

• Change primary key
• Delete from an object