Cumulate Objects by Drag & Drop 

Use

You use this function if you want to look for dependent objects via the product structure browser or the project structure browser.

Procedure

If you want to look for other objects that may be relevant for the configuration folder, starting from the controlled object or any other object in the struture of the configuration folder, procede as follows:

  1. Select an object in the structure.

    2. Make sure that no objects are selected in the worklist.

  2. Choose .

    3. The browser is displayed in the left hand screen area. For more information, see Display browser.

  3. In the browser, you look for objects relevant to a configuration folder.

    4. In the product structure browser and project structure browser you can display the relationships between objects and navigate around the project or product structures.

    In the browser, you can go directly to the display of individual objects by clicking on the right mouse button, in order to see them more precisely and to decide whether they are relevant for the configuration folder.

  4. In order to transfer an object into the structure of the configuration folder, drag it with the mouse to an object in the overview tree of the screen area Structure (see Navigation in the CM Workbench).

If you transfer an object with Drag & Drop, make sure to click on the symbol and not on the name.

Result

The system adds the new object to the structure as a subordinated node of the object to which you drag it.