Macroscopic views

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Macroscopic views are diagrams for the high level analysis of application architecture and dependency.

To generate a macroscopic view, right-click on the  application and select  Macroscopic view in the contextual menu.

Generate macroscopic views of an application

The macroscopic view diagram is empty when it is created.

To display the content of your choice in the application, right-click in the diagram and select Load content in the contextual menu. Tick to select the items you wish to display in the diagram in the dialog. Click OK.

Select the content of the application

The macroscopic view diagram displays the items selected.

The macroscopic view of an application

You can broaden the macroscopic view diagram by displaying the impact of the items selected.

To display the impact of an item in the diagram, right-click on it and select the Show impact in the contextual menu. Select the elements you wish to display in the dialog. Click OK.

Alternatively, if you wish to display all the elements related to an item in the diagram, right-click on it and select Load the entire impact of this element in the contextual menu.

To export the diagram to image formats, right-click in it and select File > Save as image file. Define the image parameters in the dialog. Click OK.

Save diagram as image files

To delete an item from the macroscopic view, right-click on it and select  Remove from diagram in the contextual menu.