Appendix D BusinessEvents Tools Overview : BusinessEvents Tools—Rule Analyzer User Interface Overview

BusinessEvents Tools—Rule Analyzer User Interface Overview
Rule Analyzer provides a clickable ontology graph and three additional panels with related information. Rule Debugger includes two additional panels, documented in the section BusinessEvents Tools—Rule Debugger User Interface Overview.
A summary of the purpose of each panel in Rule Analyzer follows. For a detailed reference to the user interface, see Appendix G, BusinessEvents Tools Reference.
Overview Panel
The overview panel (in the lower left of the user interface) shows the entire graph for the project. The blue box shows what is currently displayed in the Analyzer/Dependency panel.
When you drag the blue box over different parts of the overview graph, the parts of the graph that are contained in the blue box display in the Analyzer/Dependency panel (see Analyzer/Dependency Panel).
When you resize the blue box, the zoom level in the Analyzer/Dependency panel changes accordingly, to display the part of the graph contained in the blue box. The blue box also resizes when you use the interactive zoom and pan tools to resize the graph in the Analyzer/Dependency panel.
Properties Panel
The properties panel (in the upper left of the user interface) displays the properties of the entity that is currently selected in the graph (displayed in the Analyzer/Dependency panel).
The Folder property shows the position of the entity in the TIBCO Designer project folder hierarchy. Other properties are set in TIBCO Designer, using the Configuration and Properties tabs or are derived from related information, for example, the name of the rule author.
Source Panel
The Source panel (in the top right of the user interface) displays the details of the rule selected in the Analyzer/Dependency panel.
To change the rule, you open it in the rule editor in the TIBCO Designer project. The rule is presented differently in TIBCO Designer and in the Source panel:
The Source panel declare block corresponds to the rule editor Declaration area.
The Source panel when corresponds to the rule editor Conditions area.
The Source panel then block corresponds to the rule editor Actions area.
Analyzer/Dependency Panel
In Rule Analyzer this panel has no name. It contains the main view of the dependency graph. Tabs just above the graph allow you to switch to a different project or application if multiple are open.
See BusinessEvents Tools Graph Elements for details about the shapes and links that can appear in a graph.
You can click an entity to display its information in the other panels (such as the Source and Properties panels). You can click a link to highlight its path. You can also enable the Link Navigator mode (click the button) and then click on any part of a link to follow it from start to end. Property names on links indicate the property used by a rule or affected by a rule, depending on the direction of the arrow.
You can use various styles of layout. See BusinessEvents Tools Layout Options Reference to understand the uses of the different options.
Orphaned Entities
In some projects or services, you may notice some entities not connected by links. This is because the tools may not generate links for certain relationships. For example, the tools do not introspect custom Java functions.