Browsing Variability Associations

The complete hierarcy of variability associations for an element can be displayed graphically. This allows you to navigate directly to any one of the variability elements.

There are 3 types of variability associations:

How to browse variability associations

  1. Switch to the Authoring perspective if you are not already using it. authoring button

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  2. Right-click on any task icon task icon in the Library view to bring up a sub-menu, then select Open via variability elements. A new window will appear which shows the hierarchy of content packages with variability elements related to the selected element. For each element you can see an icon indicating the element's type, its name, and its variability associations (shown in parentheses).

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  3. You can expand all or collapse all associations by using the plus icon and minus icon buttons above the tree browser.

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  4. You can either click once and then choose OK or else double-click on any element to bring up the appropriate editor for that type of element.

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