| Menu | Command | Description |
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| File | New | See table: The standard toolbar |
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| Open | See table: The standard toolbar |
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| Close | - Closes the active diagram window. The Modeler suggests
that before you close this window, you save changes to your diagram. If you
close a diagram without saving, you lose all changes made since the last
save.
- You can also close a diagram by using the Close icon on
the diagram's window.
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| Save | See Table: The standard toolbar. |
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| Save As | Save and name the diagram in the active diagram
window through an LN session. |
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| Save as Metafile | Exports a diagram in Enhanced Metafile (EMF) data
format. This export file can be imported, such as into Microsoft Word. |
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| File Settings | User | See Section 4.2, The Modeler settings. |
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| File Settings | Application | See Section 4.2, The Modeler settings. |
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| Print Preview | - Displays the active diagram as it would appear when
printed. When you choose this command, the main window is replaced with a print
preview window, in which one or two pages are displayed in their printed
format.
- The print preview toolbar offers you options to view
either one or two pages at a time: move back and forth through the diagram;
zoom in and out of pages; initiate a print job.
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| Print | To print a diagram, use this command. - This command presents a Print dialog box.
- You can specify the range of pages to be printed, the
number of copies, the destination printer, and other printer setup
options.
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| Exit | Ends your Modeler session. - You can also use the Close command on the application
Control menu.
- The Modeler prompts you to save diagrams with unsaved
changes.
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| Edit | Undo | Undoes the last edit you carried out. |
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| Redo | To reverse the last Undo command. |
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| Cut | See table: The standard toolbar. |
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| Copy | See table: The standard toolbar. |
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| Paste | See table: The standard toolbar. |
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| Delete | Deletes the selected graphical objects in the active
diagram window. |
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| Select All | Selects all graphical objects in the active diagram
window. |
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| View | Toolbars | - To display and hide the Toolbars, including buttons for
some of the common commands in the Modeler such as File Open.
- When the toolbar is displayed, a check mark appears
next to the menu item.
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| Status bar | To display and hide the status bar. - The status bar describes the action to be executed by
the selected menu item, toolbar button, and keyboard latch state, such as
CapsLock.
- When the Status Bar is displayed, a check mark appears
next to the menu item.
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| Background | To show the background, toggle this
command. - This is only applicable in the enterprise structure
diagram.
- You can change the background at the properties of the
diagram.
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| Header | To show the header. |
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| Last Zoom | To go back to the previous zoom level. |
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| Actual Size | To set the zoom to the default value 100. |
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| Zoom | To set the zoom level to 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150,
200 or Custom, use this command. - If you select Custom, a Zoom control panel is shown;
use this to set the specific zoom level.
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| Fit In Window | To resize the diagram so it is completely visible in
the diagram window. |
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| Insert | - | This menu shows the graphical objects you may insert
at a given moment. |
| Arrange | - | See table: The alignment toolbar. |
| Options | Automatic Relationships | See table: The alignment toolbar. |
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| Automatic Positioning | To automatically position a relation in the middle of
a side of a graphical object, use this command. - If you position the relation with an offset from the
middle, this offset is maintained at all sides of the graphical
object.
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| Select Mode | See table: The standard toolbar |
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| External Codes | To show the external codes of the graphical objects,
click this command. |
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| Check Syntax/Validity | To check the consistency of the business process
diagram on its rules. |
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| Visibility | To select the categories you need visible in the
business control diagram or business function diagram. |
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| Children | To show the children of the business control
diagram. |
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| Legend | - To show the defined optimization phase legends, use
this command.
- This is only applicable for business function
diagrams.
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| Wizard Browser | To search for the wizard you want to carry out. The
wizard will guide you through a predefined process by asking questions. |
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| Window | New Window | To open a new diagram window with the same contents as
the active diagram window. - You can open multiple diagram windows to display
different parts or views of a diagram simultaneously.
- If you change the contents in one diagram window, all
other diagram windows that contain the same diagram reflect those
changes.
- When you open a new diagram window, it becomes the
active diagram window, and is displayed on top of all other open diagram
windows.
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| Cascade | To arrange multiple opened diagram windows in an
overlapped fashion. |
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| Tile | To arrange multiple opened diagram windows in a
non-overlapped fashion. |
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| Arrange Icons | To arrange the icons for minimized diagram windows at
the bottom of the main window. - If there is an open diagram window at the bottom of the
main window, some or all of the icons will not be visible; this is because they
are underneath this diagram window.
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| Help | Help Topics | Shows the Help topics on the Modeler. |
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| Release Notes | Shows the release notes. |
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| EME | Shows information on the Modeler, such as the
version, copyright, and license. |
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