Transaction editor dashboard

Transaction editor dashboard is a visualization tool that gives a bird view of data-driven development process.

There are two major functions of transaction editor dashboard:

Use dashboard to derive

The dashboard contains the following deriving route:

  • Data Element to Context
  • Context to Formatter
  • Context to User Interface

Use dashboard to select transaction tabs

You can select the transaction tabs by clicking the select in the corresponding blocks in the dashboard. All six tabs: processor, operation, context, data, format, and service can be selected in this way.

Use dashboard to handle transaction XML files

General information display in dashboard

The upper right corner of dashboard displays the general information of current project. The first line displays the name of current project. The second line displays the name of current file. The third line is a link to the folder which contains btt.xml and you can launch the folder by clicking the link. The fourth link is the link to the infocenter of BTT and you can launch the infocenter web site by clicking the link.

Example

The following picture shows the default look of transaction editor dashboard:

And the related-links are tasks introducing how to use dash board to derive: