The design entities and their editors

Each entity covers a specific aspect of the application design. If you double-click an entity instance in the Design Explorer view, you view this instance in its dedicated editor. An editor is constituted of tabs. Some tabs are common to all entities. In these tabs, you can complete tasks that are available on all entities, such as adding comments or keywords. Other tabs are specific to an entity, so the possible design tasks differ according to the entity.

Note: An instance can be opened in several editors simultaneously. You can modify it in one of these editors. The modifications that are made in this editor are automatically carried over to the other editors. If you close the editor without saving, the modifications are not lost because they are held by the other editors. When you close the editor, a message informs you of this behavior. The modifications are discarded only when you close the last editor without saving.

The Design view is not an editor but a viewer. So, this behavior does not apply. If you modify, in a design editor, the design of an instance that is involved in a generation while the Design view of the generated instance is opened, you can subsequently close the design editor without saving. The modifications are discarded in the design editor and disappear from the Design view.


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