TIBCO Designer contains a small number of native palettes. In addition, each TIBCO application you install that uses Designer adds one or more palettes during installation.
When the default view is set as your view preference, the current selection in the project tree determines which palettes are displayed in the palette panel. You can change your view preferences to change what’s displayed in the palette panel. See
Customizing the Display for more information about how TIBCO Designer functions in palette mode.
The palette browser allows you to manage palettes easily. You can explore palette groups, palettes and resource types, and enable or disable specific palettes to display in the palette panel. The browser includes a search filter that allows you to display only palettes that match a specific string. Click
Palettes > Browse to display the palette browser.
The palette browser displays all available palettes grouped by palette groups in a hierarchy. Selecting a palette or resource in a palette displays its name, resource id and description in the right pane.
Clearing the check box next to a palette's name in the tree hides that palette in the palette panel. Selecting the check box shows that palette in the palette panel. You must close the palette browser to view the changes you have made.
By default, all palettes are visible in the palette browser. You can provide a filter in the
Filter string/pattern field to limit the display. The filter uses regular expression matching. That is, if you enter JMS in the field, only palettes that have JMS in their name, description or containing palette are displayed. Matching is case insensitive. Entering a new expression and clicking
Filter again performs a new search on all resource types and will not refine the current search.
To clear the filter expression and display all palettes either click Show all or remove the expression from the entry box and click
Filter again.
Palettes can be hidden by clicking the X icon next to the palette name. For example, the following diagram shows the palette panel with a large number of palettes displayed. You can disappear a palette by clicking the
X icon.
To redisplay a palette quickly, click the Palettes menu and select the palette to display. For example, the next diagram shows that the FTP palette is not visible in the palettes panel (an X does not display next to FTP). After you select FTP, its palette will display in the palette panel. Note that you can hide palettes using this menu. Each time you select a palette, it toggles between appearing and disappearing.
While in palette mode, you can close individual palettes using the close marker (
X) on the right. If you don’t see close markers, choose
Palettes > Options> Show Close Boxes. To hide close markers, choose
Palettes > Options> Hide Close Boxes.
To redisplay a closed palette, choose Palettes > Browse, then locate and select the palette.
You can display the palette panel in a separate window by choosing Palettes > Options > Show Palettes in New Window. You can also access this menu command from the right-button menu of any palette in the palette panel.