Model Navigation

Model Tree Navigation

An ADORA model is built upon an decomposition hierarchy, which can be shown alternatively as a tree structure. When opening the outline of the Eclipse IDE, you'll find the object decomposition hierarchy as a tree structure as shown in Fig. 1. A context menu (right click menu) for each node is available (Fig. 2). The possible actions that can be chosen from this menu are:

The editor outline for the navigation in the model.

Fig. 1: Navigation tree shown in the outline.


The editor outline showing a context menu for a particular item.

Fig. 2: Context menu of a node in the navigation tree.

Navigate to a Specific Element

Having big models sometimes requires to scroll. In this case you can just select the particular node in the navigation outline. The selected node will be scrolled into the visible area of the canvas. If the element is already visible, the canvas will not be scrolled.

There are further navigation methods for an ADORA model: