Message Flow editor menus

All the actions that you can perform in the Editor view of the Message Flow editor are also available from a series of drop-down menus in WebSphere Event Broker. When the Message Flow editor is open, the following menus appear in the Workbench:

Menu Keyboard shortcut
Flow Alt + O
View Alt + V
Palette Alt + L
Run Alt + R

The Navigate menu also contains actions specific to the Message Flow editor.

Flow menu

The flow menu contains all the actions that address editing of the flow model. Actions are statically positioned on the menu, and are enabled or disabled when nodes or connections are selected in the editor.

The following actions are available:

Menu item Keyboard shortcut
Create Connection C
Add subflow... A
Rename... N
Locate Subflow... L
Promote Property P
Properties... R

View menu

The View menu contains all actions specific to the visual presentation of the flow model.

Menu item Keyboard shortcut
Zoom In I
Zoom Out O
Manhattan Layout M
Show Grid G
Snap to Grid G
Grid Properties... P
Align A
Distribute D
Layout L
Rotate R

Palette menu

The Palette menu contains all actions specific to the Message Flow editor Palette.

Menu item Keyboard shortcut
Add Node to Canvas N
Customize T
Settings... S
Revert Palette to Defaults T

Run menu

The Run menu contains the flow debug actions.

Menu item Keyboard shortcut
Add Breakpoint A
Remove Breakpoint E
Add Breakpoints After Node A
Add Breakpoints Before Node B

Navigate menu

The Navigate menu contains the following actions specific to the Message Flow editor:

Menu item Keyboard shortcut
Open Subflow O
Open Source S
Related concepts
Message flows overview
Related tasks
Adding a node using the keyboard
Related reference
Message Flow editor
Broker Application Development perspective
Message Brokers Toolkit keyboard shortcuts