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Context Sensitive Menu

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Clicking the right mouse button on a session, page, or window within the browser’s tree structure allows you access to a variety of options.  The visibility of browser context menu items is dependent on the current selection - only functions valid for the selected items are activated. Options selected in an empty space apply to the entire model.

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Session browser context sensitive menu

Option

Available for

Description

Create 

All

Creates a new page (for session), creates a new page in front of the selected one (for page), or creates/adds a new page to the end of the existing page list (for window).

Delete

Page

Deletes the selected page(s).

New

Window

Clears the content of the selected window(s).

Rename

Page

Changes the name of the current page by entering a new name in the name text field and pressing ENTER.  You can cancel the rename operation by pressing ESC.

Make Current

Page and Window

Selects which page or window will be the current page/window (when more than one is displayed).

Change Font...

Session and Page

Displays the Font Selector dialog and applies the selected font to the page title of all pages (for session) or the selected pages only (for page).

Copy

Page and Window

Copies the selected page or window to the clipboard (leaving the originals behind).  The duplicated pages can then be inserted into the list using the Paste or Overlay options (see below).

Cut

Page

Cuts/removes the selected page from the list and retains the contents on the clipboard.  The cut pages can be inserted back into the list using the Paste or Overlay options (see below).

Paste

Page and Window

Pastes a previously copied or cut page (for page), or a previously copied window (for window).  The copied/cut page is inserted after the selected page in the list (if a page is not selected, the cut/copied page is added to the end of the page list).  The copied window will be inserted into the selected window in the list.

Overlay

Page and Window

Overlays a previously copied or cut page (for page), or a previously copied window (for window).  The selected page/window will be overlayed with the page/window on the clipboard.

Collapse

Session and Page

Collapses the entire tree (for session), or collapses the currently selected page only (for page).

Expand

Session and Page

Expands the entire tree (for session), or expands the currently selected page only (for page).

Show/Hide Filter

All

Displays the content filter area at the top of the browser.  The filter allows you to determine which windows should appear in the browser’s tree structure based on their client type, as well as search/filter by the match string on a page label.

Publish Settings

All

Opens the Publish Settings dialog. Input a description for single or multiple windows/pages and select the data type to be included in a published session file.

•Click the expansion button, exp-button, to increase the description window. The description is included under the window in the saved file.
•Depending on the client type selected, options include:  PNG, JPEG, AVI, H3D, TIF, BMP, GIF, TEXT, XLS Microsoft Excel file, Microsoft EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile), and MPT.  See Export Settings for additional information regarding Publish Session options.

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•For Windows only, you can select EMF as a output format option for PowerPoint Publishing.  This is a vector-based format.
•When you select the MPT (Media Pass Through) option for PowerPoint Publishing, your media file is published to PowerPoint without being recaptured, thus retaining the file's original quality.  This format option is displayed in Publish Settings when you are using MediaView only.  When you select this format option, any notes that have been added to the media file in MediaView will not be passed through to PowerPoint upon publishing.

Note When exporting a HyperGraph window as an .xls file, it is embedded in the PowerPoint presentation as an Excel object.  The curve values are contained within the .xls file if you want to change the curve values in                PowerPoint.

         A TextView window can be saved as a text file.

Create Tag

All

To create a tag for a new entity in the Session browser, right-click on the entity and select Create Tag.  The following dialog is displayed:

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Enter a tag name and select its format from the drop-down menu.

Tag Table

All

To view, rename, delete, or change the format for tags while in the Session browser, right-click and select Tag Table from the context menu.  See the Tag Table definition in the PowerPoint Publishing topic for more information.

Quick Publish

Page and Window

Transfers data to PowerPoint from the HyperWorks Desktop session with respect to what is selected/highlighted in the Session browser (the publishing settings will be ignored). Quick Publish always create new pages in the PowerPoint file.  See PowerPoint Publishing for more information.

Configure Browser

All

Opens the Browser Configuration window. Select which entity types, columns, and options are displayed in the Session browser.