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warren_scott

station globals view type definition

Status: New

I've got a bunch of variables in StationGlobals.  Many of them are types.  I want to edit the type of one of the variables to add a parameter.

 

Workflow -- 

Open StationGlobals pane by clicking the "world" icon along the top.

Find the variable instance.  I right click on the variable instance, and this is the listing I get

Darn.  I was hoping to be automatically linked to the type definition.

AddViewToSGviewer.png

 

 

Frustrated, I was convinced I had right clicked on instances of types before and been able to directly link to the type definition for that variable.  So I go to my empty dummy sequence file, and try doing the same thing from the variables pane of "Sequence File 1"

 

viewexistsinSFview.png

 

Ah Ha!!! that's what I wanted.

 

So how about this -- why don't we just take this "Right click -> view -> type definition" ability that exists in the variables view, and get that feature added to the station globals view, kinda like this:

 

addedView.png