The flow message set editor is the default editor provided for
editing message set (messageSet.sfmset) files.
The editor is started in the editor area when you open an existing
message set file in the Navigator view or when you create a new message set
file using the New Message Set wizard.
Flow message set editor views
The flow message set
editor has the following views:
- Navigator view
- The Navigator shows a hierarchical view of all the resources that are
currently in your workspace. By expanding the folder for a message set project,
you can see the resources, including the message set file, that this message
set project contains.
- Editor area
- You edit the properties of message set in the editor area of the message
set editor, which has a single tab, the Properties tab. This tab provides:
- The Properties Hierarchy, which provides a hierarchy at four levels: Message
set, Physical properties, Operations and Documentation.
- The Details view, which displays the properties relating to the currently
selected level in the Properties Hierarchy.
There are tabs across the top of the editor area for each file that
you have open, so that you can quickly switch between them.
- Tasks view
- Use this view to enter and maintain a list of tasks for the selected message
definition file.
- Problems view
- Each time you save a change within a message set project, the content
is validated to ensure that the message model follows certain rules. Any informational,
warning or error messages relating to the validation appear in this view.
Properties Hierarchy functions
Right-click in the
Properties Hierarchy to display the menu items available for the level of
the hierarchy that you have currently selected:
- Undo and Redo are available for all levels in the Properties
Hierarchy and apply to changes that you make in the Details view. To undo
a change that you have made to a message set file but not yet saved, click Undo.
If you undo a change, you can reinstate it by clicking Redo.
- For the Physical formats level, the Add Custom
Wire Format, Add XML Wire Format, Add Tagged/Delimited String
Format, Add DBCS Terminal Model, Add BMS Terminal Model,
and Add Terminal Model menu items are available for adding physical
format layers to a message set file.
- Under Physical properties, the following menu items are available
for the selected physical format layer:
- Apply default physical format settings applies the default physical
format settings to the selected physical format layer.
- Rename renames the selected physical format layer for the message
set file. Click Finish on the displayed window
to confirm the change of name.
- Delete deletes the selected physical format layer from the message
set file. Click Finish on the displayed window
to confirm the deletion.
Details view functions
You use the Details view
to define and edit global properties for the message set, and create and edit
properties for the physical format layers that you have added to the message
set.
You create any required documentation for a message set in the Documentation field.
Right-click in this field to display a menu of standard text editing menu
items that apply specifically to this field and allow you to undo changes,
cut, copy, paste and delete text, and select all the text in the field