Annotation/en
An annotation can be added to a network and contain arbitrary test or a bitmap image to provide additional documentation.
Annotations can be placed under or over the actual elements (steps and connections). Placing annotations into the underlying layer is useful to give parts of the network a frame or colored box (for this, place an empty annotation underneath and give it a background color).
Anchor on a Step[Bearbeiten]
Annotations can be anchored to a step, to keep their position relative to that step. If the step is moved, the annotation will move with it. For this, the annotation's pop up menu provides two functions under the "Geometry" item, to anchor and de-anchor the annotation.
Variables in the Text[Bearbeiten]
You can add variables into the annotation's text:
- %(author)
- Author of the action.
- %(creationDate)
- Time of creation.
- %(modifiedBy)
- Name of the person which did the last modification.
- %(modificationDate)
- Time of last modification.
- %(actionName)
- Name of the action.
- %(functionID)
- Function-ID of the action
- %(versionID)
- Version-ID of the action
- %(taggedValue.xxx)
- Contents of the tagged value by name xxx. Some plugins add such tagged-values when importing action diagrams.
Configuration[Bearbeiten]
A number of attributes can be set via the configuration dialog:
- Textcolor
- The foreground color. This can be defined as:
- a previously defined color (history)
- a color mixer
- picking a color from the screen
- choice among standard colors
- Backgroundcolor
- Color of the box
- Backgroundcolor2
- To create a color gradient.
- Framecolor
- Color of the frame or none
- Framestyle
- line, dottet, etc.
- Backgroundimage
- choose a background image (eg. to insert a map or graphic).
- Ebene
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- Background - the annotation is in the layer under the other elements.
- Foreground - the annotation is in the layer above the other elements
- Font
- font and fontsize of the text.
- Vertical layout of text
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- top - text is aligned to the top
- center - text is centered
- bottom - text is aligned to the bottom
- Horizontal layout
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- left - text is aligned to the left
- center - text is centered (whole textblock)
- right - text is aligned to the right (whole text block)
- centerEach - each line is centered
- rightEach - each line is right-aligned
- Default for new annotations
- new annotations will get the current values as initial setting
