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Hovering over the Add new object icon in the view toolbar displays both options to add new and existing objects to your BlueDolphin view.
Create and add new objects
By choosing the first option while working on the canvas, you can create objects and add them to your view. For detailed information, refer Create New Object article.
As soon as all desired objects are listed under Batch, they can be created and added to your view using the Create button.
Tip: You can use the Enter key to click through to the next field. This makes creating and adding objects even faster.
Add existing objects
There are two ways to add existing objects to the views,
- From the canvas: Double-click anywhere on the canvas to open the Add object(s) drop-down.
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From the Toolbar: Click
icon and select the Add existing objects option.
Once the Add object(s) drop-down appears,
You can either select objects from each section or search for them by entering their names. Results are displayed according to each object definition. To select an entire object definition section, check the box next to it. Objects with a future state are marked by a star icon next to them.
After selecting all the objects, click Add to View to display them.
On Architecture and Data views, when you add multiple objects to the canvas, the objects remain selected so that you can easily move the whole set to your desired location.
The functionality is enabled by default. To disable, uncheck the box next to Display relationships of the selected objects on the view.
If you are looking for an object that does not exist yet, you can create a new one by tying its name.
Click Create this object to add the object to the repository.
Comments
4 comments
Hi, this new feature still assumes that I know what objects are new or existing.
What if I don't know that? In the repository over time there are thousands of objects.
I don't even want think about it. I want to be serviced when entering a number of object titles, where BD tells me which ones are new and which ones are existing AND also adds the existing to the view.
Hi Arnoud, when you use the "add new" functionality on a view, you can add a number of objects in batches. Then, BD shows you which objects are already in the DB and which ones are new in the overview. Is this what you are looking for?
Hi Maren, this was already an existing functionality incorporated in this new feature.
What it didn't do, was also adding the existing objects to the view. It only added the new ones.
What I'm looking for is that the ones that are already in the DB are also added to the view.
Hi Arnoud, for me it does add the existing objects to the view. Maybe we can have a look at that together with our support team? Because it might be that I dont understand what you mean, and we would like to improve this control later on with the new wishes that we get!
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