Introduction
This view is used to navigate your datasources, folders and maps. You can add and delete datasources, and move, rename, create and delete folders and maps.
and create new maps. These functions are available by right-clicking to enable the context menu.
Tasks
Highlight a datasource or a folder and
rightclick to access
New->folder.
In the ensuing dialog box,
enter the name of the folder and its parent folder. At this point you have the option to
Finish,
or you can go on to define a parent
context for the folder. If you don't know whether or not you want to define a context or not you can just finish
and define your context later.
Highlight a datasource or a folder and
rightclick to access
New->Map.
Now add a name for your map and its parent folder, and click
Next.
You are now prompted to select a
context based on the contexts available in the datasource.
Finish and new empty map will appear in the Editor View .
Highlight a datasource, folder or map, rightclick and select Delete.
If you click OK after the prompt the resource will be deleted from the view.
Only folders and maps can be renamed. Right-click on a selected folder or map and select Rename.
Enter the new name in the Map Repository View.
Folders and maps can be moved around the datasource in a way mimics the behaviour of file system moves - Maps can be be moved to any folder, but folders cannnot
be moved to their own subfolders.Right-click on a selected folder or map and select Move.
Enter the new name in the Map Repository View.
The Help view shows the help documentation available for EPE.
Some notable features of the Help system include:
- Clicking on the Alltopics link shows the table of contents.
- Help docs can be searched using the Search link.
- You can add a bookmark to a Help topic of interest by clicking on the
icon on the right hand side of the view title bar.
- You can navigate forwards and backwards through the documentation by using the arrow icons on the right hand side of the view title bar.
- Click
to open the help view in a new window.
- Click
to show the current help page in the table of contents.
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In the help documentation, user actions are generally
in red .
Introduction
The outline view provides both a graphical and textual overview of the elements in the map.
The Outline view is normally present by default. If not, it can be accessed from the menu bar by :
Window->ShowView->Other.
In the resultant dialog box, select General->outline and click OK.
There are two icons in the view title bar -
and
.
provides the textual overview of the elements.
gives an indication of the location of the part of the map visible in the editor window in the whole map.
You can drag the blue rectangle around in the view and the editorView will display the part under the blue rectangle.
Tasks
From the textual outline view, various tasks can be performed from the context menu.
To access the context menu highlight an item and right-click.
From the context menu click Select. The editor View will move to display the item, which will be selected.
Clicking Select All of the same type will select all items of the category which is highlighted.
Items can be deleted from the map by pressing the Delete key with Outline view in focus. To perform other editing functions on the selected
items you will need to get the focus of the editor view by clicking on the tab of the active map.
A task is a reminder to yourself that something needs doing, that can be attached to any map item. For example,
before going on holidat you might like to place reminders on what you were doing, or to flag up unfinished tasks for co-workers.
Clicking on
Add task from the context menu opens up a dialog box where you describe your task. The task is displayed in the
Task View.
Items can be sorted in the list either by the type of object they are or the text that they contain.
This can be useful when looking for an object in a large map.
The map in the editor view is unaffected by this action.
Task View
This view displays the tasks you have defined for yourself. It is accessed by clicking :
Window->show View->other->General->Tasks.
You can either define a task using the
context menu in the
Outline View or you can click on the

icon
in the task view title bar to add a task.
Progress View
This view displays the progress of long-running processes such as import and export of maps.
It can be accessed by :
Window->show View->other->General->Progress.
To cancel a process click on the

icon.
Search View