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Property Collectors Panel

Property Collectors Panel

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Property Collectors Panel

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Location:   Property Collectors toolbar button

 

Use the Property Collectors panel to create property collectors. Property collectors are used to assign physical properties to entities.

 

Panel Usage


The Property Collectors panel is organized into three subpanels for creating, updateding, and assigning properties. These subpanels are listed at the left-hand edge of the panel.  The center of the panel contains input fields to define the properties, and the right-hand edge contains command buttons to create, edit, update, assign, or review properties (depending on which subpanel is active).

property_collectors_panel

 

Subpanels and Inputs


The Property Collectors panel contains the following subpanels and command buttons:

hmtoggle_arrow1Create

Panel Inputs

Input

Action

prop name =

Type in a name for the new property collector.

color

Click color to open a palette and select a color to assign to the property collector.

type =

This field serves as a filter of all property types available to the card image field, based on the current user profile. Click the button to open a list of valid property types.

Use this option to filter property types by element dimension or application.

card image / no card image / same as (switch)

To assign a card to the collector, choose between card image=, no card image, or card image same as.

If you pick card image=, click the card image= button to pick the desired card image.
Note:The type= field may be filtering the choices available to you.
If you pick card image same as, click the card image same as button to select a collector that already uses the desired card image.

material =

Click this field to open a list of defined materials.  Select one by clicking it to assign it to the new property collector.

reject

Undoes the most recent assign action.

 

hmtoggle_arrow1Update

Panel Inputs

Input

Action

props

Use this entity selector to pick the property collectors you wish to update.

color

Click color to open a palette and select a color to assign to the property collector.

type =

This field serves as a filter of all property types available to the card image field, based on the current user profile. Click the button to open a list of valid property types.

Use this option to filter property types by element dimension or application.

card image / no card image / same as (switch)

To assign a card to the collector, choose between card image=, no card image, or card image same as.

If you pick card image=, click the card image= button to pick the desired card image.
Note:The type= field may be filtering the choices available to you.
If you pick card image same as, click the card image same as button to select a collector that already uses the desired card image.

material =

Click this field to open a list of defined materials.  Select one by clicking it to assign it to the new property collector.

 

hmtoggle_arrow1Assign

Panel Inputs

Input

Action

elems

Use this entity selector to pick the elements to which you wish to assign a property collector.

type =

This field serves as a filter of all property types available to the card image field, based on the current user profile. Click the button to open a list of valid property types.

Use this option to filter property types by element dimension or application.

property =

Click to open a list of existing property collectors.  If none display, you must first create some.

 

hmtoggle_arrow1Command Buttons

The following action buttons appear throughout the subpanels:

Button

Action

create

Creates the new property collector.

create/edit

Creates the new property collector and opens the card edit panel.

update

Changes the selected property collectors to have the characteristics currently defined on the subpanel.

update/edit

Changes the selected property collectors to have the characteristics currently defined on the subpanel, and opens the card edit panel.

reset

Resets all the fields on the subpanel to the selected collector's original characteristics.

assign

Assigns the chosen property to the selected elements.

unassign

Removes all property assignments from the selected elements.

review

Select a property in the property = field, then click review to see its current characteristics.

reject

Undoes the most recent assign action.