Access
To work with the list of repository data types, you must either:
Select the Data types option from the Repository menu of the CDM.
Select the Data types tab of the LDM/PDM screen.
The list only displays the visible data types of the current application area, i.e. all the public data types of the environment, as well as the private data types of the application area.
Lists
Data types
List of repository data types.
Extended-selection list.
Context-sensitive menu / Buttons
The following options are accessible via the context-sensitive menu or via buttons, depending on wether the dialog box is opened via the CDM's repository, or the LDM/PDM window.
In addition, if the dialog box is opened via the LDM/PDM window, the buttons present in the window will depend on the settings in the Create/Modify a software engineer dialog box's Preferences tab.
Create
This option opens a dialog box which is used to create data types.
Modify
This option opens a dialog box which is used to display or modify the general characteristics of the selected data type.
This option is not active when no data type is selected in the list.
Delete
This option opens a message box which is used to confirm the final deletion of the selected data types.
When the deletion is validated, the list of data types is updated accordingly.
This option is not active when no data type is selected in the list.
Copy
This option opens a dialog box which is used to copy a data type.
This option prints the characteristics of the selected data types.
The printing job is submitted to the Job manager.
This option is not active when no data type is selected in the list.
Analyze
This option opens a dialog box displaying the list of logical properties which use the selected data type.
This option is not active when no data type is selected in the list.
Hold
This option opens a dialog box enabling the selected data types to be held by the default correction.
This option is only visible in correction environments.
It is only active when one or more data types are selected in the list and the user has a default correction.
The following two buttons are present only if the dialog box is called from the Repository menu of the CDM
Enter
This option closes the dialog box.
It is accessible only from the CDM.
Keyboard shortcut: Esc.
Print the list
This option prints the list of repository data types.
It is accessible only from the CDM.