Using the Dependency Viewer

Use the Dependency Viewer to show an interactive, graphical representation of your project's file dependencies.

1. Right-click a resource in Project Explorer (for example, a project, a BOM file, or a form file) and select View Dependencies.
2. The Dependency Viewer displays the dependencies.

   For example, right-clicking the easyAsInsurance_Process.xpdl file shows references from the form files to the XPDL file and references from the XPDL file to the easyAsInsurance.bom (business object model) and easyAsInsuranceOrganizationModel.om (organization model).

   

   Note: You can select different views in the Dependency Viewer to make these relationships clearer:

   

   To focus on a resource, do one of the following:

   • Select the resource in the Project Explorer.
   • Right-click the resource in Dependency Viewer and choose Focus on or Focus on Resource name.
   • Click the button.
   To reset the layout and refresh the contents of the viewer, click .
   To show everything in the workspace, including resources which are not related to the resource you have focused on, click .
   Note: To break the link between the Project Explorer and the Dependency Viewer, click . Doing this means that resources that you select in the Project Explorer are not focused in the Dependency Viewer.
   To highlight resources that are referenced from the resource you are focusing on, click . In the following graph, the easyAsInsurance_Process.xpdl file references easyAsInsurance.bom (Business Object Model) and easyAsInsuranceOrganizationModel.om (Organization Model).

   

   To highlight resources that have a reference to the resource on which you are focused, click . In the following graph, a number of form files reference the easyAsInsurance_Process.xpdl file.

   

   To show all the resources which are part of the relationship graph of the focused resource (that is, all the resources which are directly or indirectly related to focused node), click .