Show and hide children

When you want to focus on viewing certain levels in a model diagram, you can show and hide children.

Note: The hide command does not work when the children have an internal relationship between themselves.

Procedure

1. Open the model or working context for the model you want to view.
2. Click Architecture.
3. In the diagram, click the arrow in the lower right corner of the element to show and hide (expand and collapse) its children. A number appears next to the arrow to indicate how many direct children the element has:
   • Click to show all the children (indicates all children are expanded).
   • Click this arrow to hide all the children.
   • This arrow indicates that some children are hidden — click to show all children; right-click to hide all the children.
   • The number next to the arrow indicates that all children are hidden — click to show all children.

You can hide child elements from the graph by clicking the icon of the element.

• If the child element is an anchor node, the hide action makes the parent the anchor node.
• If a child element that has connections is rolled up, the parent element displays the edge.

You can hide child elements from the content list by clicking the icon of the element that appears in the content list.

In the Nested View, when the parent is expanded, the children are contained within a box with the parent. You can expand the children in the same way to drill down to lower levels of the structure.

Note: If one of the children is a root node, when you hide children, the parent becomes the root node.