Component Explorer view

This view provides a hierarchical view of the software components on the LN server.

Use this view to add these software components to your personal activity in the LN Studio:

  • Additional Files
  • Domains
  • Functions
  • Labels
  • Libraries
  • Menus
  • Messages
  • Questions
  • Reports
  • Sessions
  • Tables

The following table describes the different nodes in the previous figure.

Nr. in figure Description
1 Application that determines the development repository to be used.
2 LN package code displayed in ascending order (for example: td, tf, tp).
3 Main Component Type. For example: Domain, report, session, or table.
4 LN module code displayed in ascending order.

The module code is displayed for all component types, except domains and labels.

5 LN software component displayed in ascending order.

Double-click a software component to add the component to your personal activity.

To find a particular software component, perform one of these actions:

  • Expand the relevant folders in the Component Explorer view. For example, to find the Employees - General (tccom0101m000) session, expand the following folders: tc (Common), Sessions, and com (Common Data).
  • On the LN Studio toolbar, click Select a Software Component, or press ALT+Q. The Select Component(s) dialog starts. Use this dialog to find components and link them to your current activity.
Note: Labels are not sorted by module, but by search key. They are divided into subgroups.

Messages and questions are sorted by module. If a message or question code does not start with a valid module code, the message/question is categorized in the "other" subgroup.

Toolbar

The toolbar of the Component Explorer view includes the following buttons:

Refresh Refreshes the contents of the view. For example, use this command when you have created a new session on the LN server and want the session to appear in the Component Explorer view.
Hide expired components Hides components with the Expired status.
Hide checked out components Hides components already checked out.

Shortcut menu

To open the shortcut menu, select one or more software components in the view. Then right-click.

The shortcut menu contains the Get command. Use this command to link the selected software components to your current activity.

The components are now displayed in the Activity Explorer view. You can now check out and edit the components.

See Developing software components.

Note: When you use the Get command, the editor can automatically start for the selected components. However, this depends on your workbench preference settings.

See Preferences - Workbench.

Icons and decorators

Icons

The following icons are displayed in the Activity Explorer view:

Note: The Loading node is displayed when information is retrieved from the server. For example, this happens when you open a node for the first time.

Such a load process is time-consuming. Therefore the information is gathered in the background.

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