Use the Palette editor to edit
palette-specific information for user-defined nodes, add and delete
separators, and rearrange user-defined nodes in the palette.
About this task
- If you change the details for a user-defined node in the Palette
editor, save the changes before you add or remove another user-defined
node or the changed details will be lost.
- Do not confuse the Palette editor and Customize functions:
- Palette editor
- The Palette editor is started from the Navigator when you select
a user-defined node project or the user-defined node virtual folder.
The Palette editor is used to set the category, node names, and icons
that you want to export so that the user can see the modified node.
- Customize action
- The Customize action is started from the palette in the Message
Flow editor when you select a node. The Customize action is used to
change the way that the nodes are displayed in the workspace of the
current user.
Procedure
- To open the Palette editor use one
of the following options:
- In the Application Development view, under
the user-defined node project, select User Defined Nodes,
click Edit and Arrange Palette.
- In the Application Development view,
in the Other Resources folder of the user-defined
node project, right-click palette.xmi. Click Open
With and select Palette Editor.
- To edit palette-specific information:
- In the left side of the Palette editor
under the Category folder, click the user-defined node that you want
to edit. The details about the user-defined node are displayed in
the right side of the Palette editor.
- You can change the details in the Display
Name, Tooltip on palette, and Node
Icons fields, but you cannot change the Node
Implementation section.
- You can change the category by selecting the Category
folder on the left side of the Palette editor, and on the right side
either choose an existing category, or rename your own category.
- To group the user-defined nodes you can add or delete a
separator:
- To add a separator in a user-defined node:
- In the left side of the Palette editor, right-click
the node.
- Select Add Separator Below. A separator
is added below the node in the left side of the Palette editor.
- To delete a separator:
- In the left side of the Palette editor, right-click Separator.
- Click Delete Separator.
- To rearrange your user-defined nodes, in the left side
of the Palette editor either drag the node to
its new position, or right-click the node and select Move
Up or Move Down.