Manipulating objects
You can:
- Promote and demote objects
- Swap Object Heading and Object Text attribute values
- Split Object Heading from Object Text
- Split objects
- Merge object text
Promoting and demoting objects
When you promote an object it moves up one level in the hierarchy, becoming the next sibling of the object that was its parent. When you demote an object it moves down one level, becoming the last child of the object that was its preceding sibling.
Children of objects that are being promoted or demoted move with their parent to the new location in the hierarchy. If you select more than one object, the hierarchy of the selected objects is maintained after they are promoted or demoted.
- If there is more than one sibling, you can promote only the last object. The only exception to this rule is if all the siblings after the object that you want to promote are deleted, you can promote the object.
- If there is more than one sibling, you cannot demote the first object. An object must have a preceding sibling that it can become the child of.
- You cannot make an object the child of a deleted object. For this reason, you cannot demote an object if all its preceding siblings are deleted objects.
- You cannot promote or demote a deleted object. However, you can promote or demote an object that has deleted children. The object is promoted or demoted and its deleted children are promoted or demoted along with it.
- You cannot promote or demote objects when a sort or filter is applied to the module.
To promote an object, select it and click
.To demote an object, select it and click
.Swapping Object Heading and Object Text attributes
When you swap the attributes the contents of the Heading attribute becomes Object Text and the contents of the Text attribute becomes Object Heading. You must have modify access to the Object Heading and Object Text attributes.
This operation can be used on objects that contain both Object Heading and Object Text, and on objects that contain one or other.
To swap the Object Heading and Object Text attribute values, select the object and click
.Splitting Object Heading from Object Text
When you split an object, a new object is created to replace the selected object, and the text in the Object Heading is moved into the new object. The selected object retains the Object Text, and becomes the first child of the new object. You must have modify access to the Object Heading attribute and read access to the Object Text attribute.
If the selected object has any children, they become siblings of the selected object. The new object that contains the Object Heading is their parent.
To split Object Heading from Object Text, select the object that you want to split and click
.Splitting objects
You can split the contents of the Object Text attribute across multiple objects. Optionally, you can create links between the original object and the new objects.
To split Object Text, select the object and click Create Links to create links between the objects. Click Apply to split the object text. A new object is created, and the text that was not selected is moved into the new object.
. Select the text that you want to keep in the current object and specify a position for the new object. Optionally, selectMerging object text
You can create an object whose Object Text consists of the Object Text of one or more objects. You can create the object in the same module as the objects that you are merging, or in a different module.
To merge object text, open the module that contains the objects whose Object Text you want to merge, and click Create Links to create links between the source objects and the new object. Click OK.
. A list of all the objects in the current module is displayed. Select the objects whose Object Text you want to merge and then specify where you want to create the object. Optionally, select