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Macro tags tree view

In this view, you can insert, modify, and organize your Macro tags. The menus available in the view depend on the model selected when you open your Macro and on the type of view selected (with skeleton or no skeleton).

You can open the PDP Macro editor from a MacroName.cblgen file. This file is saved either in the Design Explorer view if the Macro was created locally or in the Navigator view if the Macro was generated in Pacbase and imported into the Design perspective. If you right-click on a MacroName.cblgen file and select Open with > PDP Macro editor (batch model for example), the PDP Macro editor opens. It consists of an editor view and of a Macro tags tree tab. The Macro tags tree tab looks like in figure 1 (pointed at by an arrow):
Figure 1. Macro tags tree view
Macro editor : an arrow points at the Macro tags tree view

Actions from the toolbar

In the Macro tags tree, you can display a program skeleton. To do so, click the skeleton icon in the Macro tags tree view toolbar. It displays the Macro tags tree in the skeleton of a program retrieved from the model you selected when you opened the current Macro. In figure 2, the PDP Macro editor - batch model) has been selected. So the Macro tags tree is displayed in a Pacbase program skeleton for batch. Clicking the button again makes the view turn into the default display.
Figure 2. Skeleton view
Macro tags tree with a skeleton view

The green tags in the tags tree can be updated. You can then work directly in this view by selecting nodes in the tree. The choices in the pop-up menu are available only for specific items selected in the tree. For example, the Create specific dialog subfunction command is available only for a dialog function selected in a Macro editor for dialog model.

You can expand the tree items with the Expand all icon or collapse the tree items with the Collapse all icon.

You can filter the list of nodes in the tags tree view. To do so, you must enter characters in the field which is just above the list of nodes. You can use the '*' and '?' wildcard characters in the string. When you type something in the text-entry field, a button is displayed beside the field. Clicking this button clears the field and the list is displayed as it was formerly with no filter applied.

You can filter the tags tree items to show a view of the items you want to work on with the filter text-entry field just above the tags tree. It is useful when the tags tree items are numerous.

The Macro editor, located just above the Macro tags tree view, gives you a dynamic view of the updates.

Menu from the tags tree

From the pop-up menu of the Macro tags tree view, you can perform a number of standard operations depending on the item selected in the tree: And other actions specific to the model chosen when you open the editor (dialog, screen or server models).

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