Resource Editor

Overview

The Actifsource Resource Editor allows you to view and/or edit any Actifsource resource. Since everything is a resource in Actifsource this is the most important editor.

The Actifsource Resource Editor shows resources as tree (similar to the Windows Explorer).

Aggregated vs. Referenced Resource

Actifsource distinguish between aggregated and referenced resources. An aggregated resource lives in the context of the parent resource. Deleting the parent resource will delete all aggregated resources.

Referenced resource may live anywhere in the model and are just referenced. Delete the referencing class will not affect the lifetime of the referenced resource.

Property

All information is grouped by properties (see also Chapter Property). Actifsource distinguish the following property types.

Open/Close Folding

To work with large resources efficiently, Actifsource can expand or collapse aggregated resources.

Use the following possibilities to expand/collapse resources.

The typeOf Statement

The typeOf statement of a resource shows the instantiation relation and declares the type of this resource.

Actifsource only allows a typeOf relation to resources of type Class.

Read Only View

Deploying Actifsource Models as an Eclipse Plugin (see Chapter 15 Plugin Project) leads to a read only view of the models. Models that are read-only are displayed in gray colors.

Breadcrumb

The breadcrumb helps you navigating large resources.

Navigating resources

Clicking on the arrow in the breadcrumb allows you navigating all resources from the same property.

Focusing aggregated resources

Clicking on a resource in the breadcrumb allows you to focus only on this aggregated resource. Use this feature to work with large resource files.

Browse resource

Actifsource allows you to browse any resource in any editor.

To browse any resources in actifsource use the following possibilities.

Insert resource

Insert on the empty line

Actifsource shows an empty line for all properties which might have another instance (depends on the subject cardinality; see Chapter 4.4.1 Property).

To insert a resources on the empty line use the following possibilities.

Insert before or after properties

Actifsource allows inserting resources before or after existing properties.

To insert an aggregated resource before or after an existing resource use the following possibilities.

Reference resource

To reference any resource use the content assist.

You may also type some letters to filter the resources.

New referenced resource

You are able to create new referenced resources just by typing the named and select new from the content assist.

The place where the resource is created depends on the UseRangeRestrictionAspect (see Chapter 4.4.4 UseRelation). If there is no UseRangeRestrictionAspect defined, the new resource is created in the same package as the referencing resource.

Move resource

If you need to change the order you can simple move resources up and down within the same property.

To move resources up and down use the following possibilities.

Sort property

Actifsource lets you sort all resources of the same property by any literal (i.e. name property).

Quick Assist

Sometimes Actifsource offers a quick assist to fix common issues. Hoover the mouse pointer over the light bulb symbol to get a tooltip with a short description of the problem.

Click on the bulb symbol to get the possible solutions.