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You use the Redefine Ports dialog box to choose the ports that you want to display on a data service or a nested component, so that you can connect to and from the ports when defining the data flow between elements. In addition, you can open the Redefine Ports dialog box at any time to change the ports that are displayed on the component. If new ports have been added to the component since you referenced it from your model, you can see them, and optionally select them, in the Redefine Ports dialog box.

If the component was created using Visual Composer, the latest port information is automatically retrieved from the cache of the latest checked-in version of the component and displayed in the Redefine Ports dialog box. If the component was created outside Visual Composer, the Redefine Ports dialog box automatically shows the ports from the component version in the cache.

You display the Redefine Ports dialog box by right-clicking a data service icon on the Design board and choosing Redefine Ports from the context menu. The Redefine Ports dialog box may also open automatically when you drag a data service, which contains a large number of ports, to the Design board.

Note Note

You can define the number of ports required to open the Redefine Ports dialog box automatically in the Model group of the Options pane (  Tools   Options  ).

More information: Options Pane - Model Group

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The Redefine Ports dialog box contains the following items:

Item

Description

Select All

Selects all the input and output ports in the list.

Deselect All

Deselects all the input and output ports in the list.

Input Ports

Lists the names of all ports used as input to the data service.

Output Ports

Lists the names of all ports used as output from the data service.

Reimport

For components created outside of Visual Composer, copies the latest version of the component into the cache and displays the updated port information in the Redefine Ports dialog box. If you modify a component (outside of Visual Composer) and then want to see those changes reflected in models that use the modified component, you must use this option to reimport the component.