Showing and Hiding Activities

ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide

Showing and Hiding Activities

You can preserve Process Editor real estate in the following ways:

Expand and collapse container activities
Change the process detail level displayed

Expanding and Collapsing Container Activities

You can collapse the display of container activities. The container activities are Sequence, If, While, Pick, Flow, Scope, Repeat Until, and For Each. They are listed in the Container palette.

To collapse a container, such as a scope, select the Collapse icon adjacent to the container, or select Collapse from the right-mouse menu. The small icon, illustrated in the collapsed scope below, indicates the container is collapsed. To expand a container, select the icon, or select Expand from the right-mouse menu.

Collapsed container

Tips for using Expand and Collapse

By default, the link style changes to a dotted line for a link with one or more targets in a collapsed container, as the example above shows
You can Expand All Containers and Collapse All Containers from the Process menu or from a blank spot on the Process Editor. Right-mouse select these options from the Process Editor.
You can set a preference to control the positioning of expanded and collapsed containers in relation to other activities. The setting affects the overall look of the process design. For details, see Layout Preferences.
You can Undo expand/collapse moves if you do not like the results

Changing the Process Detail Level

You can select a level of detail to show for a process. Level five is the default, and shows the entire process. Levels one through four hide various types of activities and containers to provide a larger-grained view of the process flow. To select a detail level, use the toolbar button, or right-click on any activity to select Detail Level. Any hidden activity can be displayed by selecting it in the Outline view.