Manage Models Task Panel

The Manage Models task panel enables you to manipulate the models and development components in your Visual Composer development environment.

The Manage Models task panel contains the following items:

Item	Description
Display	Enables you to filter the repository tree to display either Visual Composer Models, Data Services, or All Components in your development environment.
Repository tree	Displays a hierarchical tree of the software components, development components, and models in the local repository and shared repository or source control system.
Status area	Displays information about the selected model. In addition, for models saved in the shared repository or in a source control system, this pane displays information such as the check-out status, check-out user, and sync status.

The Manage Models task panel provides the following context menu options, depending on the item currently selected in the repository tree:

Menu Item	Description
New Software Component	Creates a new software component in the shared repository.
New Development Component	Creates a new development component in the local repository, in the selected software component. More information: Create New Development Component Dialog Box
New Model	Enables you to create a new model under the selected development component. More information: Create New Model Dialog Box
Open Model	Enables you to open the selected model in Storyboard.
Save As	Enables you to save a copy of a development component (and its contents) in the local repository under a different name. More information: Save As Local Copy Dialog Box
Rename	Enables you to rename an existing local model or development component in the local repository. Note If you rename a model that is referenced (reused) in another model, any of the model usages are not renamed. However, the references will still work as expected and dependencies are maintained correctly. End of the note.
Delete	Deletes the selected model or development component (and its contents) from the local repository. Note Before you delete a model, you must make sure that it is not being referenced by any other model. Otherwise, the referencing model may not work as expected after you delete the referenced model. End of the note. If you chose Data Services in the Display filter (and not Visual Composer Models), this option enables you to delete the selected service component. This option can be useful if you added a data service to a model, and then deleted the data service from the model. In this case, the reference to the data service is deleted, but the data service still remains in the development component. You can use this option to delete it from the development component.
Import Model	Imports a model from the local file system to the selected development component in the local repository. More information: Import Dialog Box
Export Model	Exports the selected model to a zip files on the local file system. More information: Export Dialog Box
Export Software Component	Exports the selected software component and all its models from the shared repository to a zip file at the location that you specify. You can then use this zip file when running a build using the offline build plug-in.
Add to Source Control	Enables you to add a development component (and its contents) or a specific model in the local repository to the source control repository and check it in. More information: Add to Source Control Dialog Box
Check Out	Checks out the selected model from the shared repository or source control system. This copies it to your local repository so you can work on it and prevents it from being modified by other users. More information: Checking Out a Model
Check In	Checks in a model previously checked out from the shared repository or source control system. After a model is checked in, it can be used and modified by others. More information: Checking In a Model
Revert	Cancels all changes to a model since it was last checked out or added to the shared repository or source control system. The current model is replaced by the previous version saved in the shared repository or source control system. More information: Reverting to the Last Checked-In Version of a Model
Sync	Synchronizes a local version of the selected model with the latest version checked in to the source control system or shared repository. More information: Synchronizing a Model
Refresh	Updates the repository tree so that it displays the most current folder and model information.