Customizing label decorations

About this task

You can customize the format that is used to display the labels of WebSphere® Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit components in the Outline view of the Transaction editor and the XUI editor. For example, you can change the label of a kColl from kColl [customer] to customer [kColl]. The format of the following component labels can be customized for the Outline view:
Figure 1. Labels of a kColl and an iColl in the Outline view of the Transaction editor
Labels of a kColl and an iColl in the Outline view of the Transaction editor.

Procedure

To customize the format of component labels, do the following steps:

  1. In Rational® Application Developer, click Windows > Preferences. The Preferences window is opened.
  2. In the Preferences window, expand BTT > Transaction Editor, and then click Label Decorations. The Label Decorations page is displayed.
  3. In the Label Decorations page, edit the label format in the field that is associated to the component to which the label belongs.
    • If you are customizing the labels that are displayed in the Outline view for widgets, edit the format of the label in the Widget Category field.
    • If you are customizing the labels that are displayed in the Outline view for non-typed data such as field, list, record, bean, htmlIColl, edit the format of the label in the Non Typed Data Category field.
    • If you are customizing the labels of typed data, edit the format of the label in the Typed Data Category field.
    • If you are customizing the labels of referenced non-typed data, edit the format of label in the Referenced Non Typed Data Category field.
    • If you are customizing the labels of referenced typed data, edit the format of the label in the Referenced Typed Data Category field.
    • If you are customizing the labels that are displayed in the Outline view of parameters, edit the format of the label in the Type Parameter Category field.
  4. Optional: Click Add Variables to add variables to the label.
  5. Click Apply, and then click OK.
  6. Restart the XUI editor or the Transaction editor to enable the changes that you have made to be displayed in the Outline views of the editors.