The graphic view provides a canvas to cover with icons that represent the Navigator items and any event indicators. For example, you might create a graphic view of your company's floor plan or organization chart.
Follow these steps to add a graphic view to the workspace:
1.Open the workspace where you want the view.
2.To create a new view for the graphic, click Split Vertically or Split Horizontally in one of the existing views.
3.Click Graphic View.
4.Click inside the new view that you created.
The mouse changes to as you move inside the workspace. After you click, the old view is replaced by the default graphic, and the child Navigator items of the current item are displayed as icons on the graphic.
5.If you want to change the background image or the style of the icons or their labels, edit the graphic view properties.
6.Click Select, then drag icons into position; use this and other graphic view tools to manipulate the view.
7.If you want to add other Navigator items to the view, drag them from the Navigator view.
You can drag items one at a time or use Ctrl+click to select multiple items, then drag them as a group. To select an item to drag without opening it, press Ctrl before you click it.
8.To keep the graphic view in this workspace for future work sessions, do one of the following:
Click Save to update the workspace properties with the new view.
Select Save Workspace As from the File menu to save this as a new workspace and leave the original workspace intact.
Tip: If a new item is displayed on the Navigator after you created the graphic view, you can add it at any time by dragging its name from the Navigator view to the graphic view; if an item gets removed from the Navigator after you created the graphic view, you can remove its icon by selecting it with , then clicking .
More about the Graphic Editor: For additional information and procedures for using the Graphic Editor, refer to the Graphic Editor section of the online help. From the Help menu, select Contents and Index. In the Contents pane, click Customizing Your Environment -> Views -> Graphic View.