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Batch Share Dialog Box

To access: Right-click a Logic build list in the Project Browser and select Batch Share.

Used to share multiple objects simultaneously.

Note

If you are using the batch share functionality for signals and messages in Capital Systems Modeler and Capital Systems Architect, see “Batch Share Dialog Box” in the Capital Systems Modeler User Guide.

Figure 217: Batch Share Dialog Box

Note

You cannot access the Batch Share dialog box if any of the designs in the build list are open. When you right-click a build list and select Batch Share, if any designs in the build list are locked by another user, a message in the Batch Share tab in the Output Window identifies which user has the lock on the design.

Objects

Field	Description
Display	Specifies which types of object are displayed in the table. Click an object type button to toggle the display for that type of object in the table. See Icons in Browsers for a description of the object type each button represents.
Table	See the “Usage Notes”.
Add Column ()	Click to display a list of extra columns you can add to the table: Add Attribute/Property Column Dialog Box. Adds a column to the table to show the value of a particular attribute/property for each object in the table Design Abstraction Displays the abstraction assigned to the designs in the table.
Details	Displays instance, attribute and property details for the object selected in the table. Click the View Details or Hide Details expander () to display/hide the details section. If you hover over a column header, the Filter button () is displayed. Click to open the Filter Popup to configure filtering on the column. If you apply a filter to the column, the symbol remains pinned to the column header. You can click a column header to sort rows according to the values in that column, in ascending order; you can then click again to sort in descending order, and click a third time to remove sorting. With the details section displayed, click an expander to display one of the sub-sections: Instances The Diagram column shows which diagrams the selected object is present on. Which other columns are displayed depends on the type of the selected object: Device, plug, jack or ring terminal: The Pins column shows which pins have been placed on each instance of the object. Inline: The Inline Jack Pins and Inline Plug Pins columns show which pins have been placed on each instance of the object. Wire or net: The Pins column shows which pins the wire/net terminates at. Splice: The Conductors column lists the wires that terminate at the splice. Multicore, overbraid or highway: The Pinlists column lists the devices/connectors that the multicore/overbraid/highway terminates at. With a row selected in the Instances table, you can click the Zoom to selected instance button (). The diagram the instance is placed on opens in the background, zoomed to the position of the instance. Attributes Displays the attributes of the selected object. Properties Displays the properties of the selected object.
Share	Not available if no objects are selected in the Selection column. Click to share the objects that are selected in the Selection column.

Usage Notes

Table

Usage

If you hover over a column header, the Filter button () is displayed. Click to open the Filter Popup to configure filtering on the column. If you apply a filter to the column, the symbol remains pinned to the column header.

You can click a column header to sort rows according to the values in that column, in ascending order; you can then click again to sort in descending order, and click a third time to remove sorting. The first five columns are added by default and cannot be removed. If you add additional attribute/property columns, you can remove one by clicking the Filter button () in the column header and selecting Remove Column.

In the Selection column, select the check boxes of the objects that you want to share. The check box in the Selection column is unavailable for:

Objects that match an existing shared object that is frozen. (If you hover over the check box, a tooltip indicates that the target shared object is frozen.)
Objects that match multiple existing shared objects. (This can occur if multiple shared objects all meet the matching criteria you have specified.)
Objects that match an existing shared object that has multiple revisions, and more than one of those revisions have instances placed on designs in the build list you are performing batch sharing on.
Objects that match an existing shared object that has multiple revisions, none of which have instances placed on designs in the build list you are performing batch sharing on.

The cells in the Action column are either a fixed value or a dropdown list used to select an option:

Share Indicates that no matching shared object exists. If you share this object a new shared object will be created.
Share Into Indicates that a matching shared object was found. If you share this object it will become an instance of the existing shared object. If you hover over the cell, a tooltip indicates which existing shared object, and which revision of that shared object, the object being shared will become an instance of.
Dropdown list Indicates that no matching shared object exists, but that matching non-shared objects do exist. If you share this object a new shared object will be created. For the first of each group of matching non-shared objects you select for sharing (by selecting its check box in the Selection column) the value in the Action column will change to “Share”; when you select other objects in that group for sharing, their values in the Action column will change to “Share Into”. You can change which object is the “Share” object by changing the Action column value of one of the “Share Into” objects to “Share” - the Action column value of the “Share” object will automatically change to “Share Into”. Note If only one object from a group of matching non-shared objects is selected for sharing, its Action column value will be “Share” and will be non-editable. If multiple objects from a group of non-shared objects are selected for sharing, if you change the “Share” object's Action column value to “Share Into”, the Action column value of one of the other selected objects will change to “Share”; if you change the Action column value of one of the “Share Into” objects to “Share”, the Action column value of the “Share” object will change to “Share Into”. If you have multiple objects from a matched group selected for sharing and you clear the Selection column check box for the “Share” object, the value in the Action column will change to “Share” for one of the other selected objects in the group of matching objects.

If you proceed with sharing, the “Share” object is first promoted to create a new shared object, and then the “Share Into” objects are shared into the new shared object. This means that the “Share” object is shared even if sharing of one of the “Share Into” objects does not proceed (for example, because of an attribute / property conflict). Note For a group of matching non-shared objects, if the Name attribute was not used as one of the matching criteria, the names of the “Share Into” objects may differ from that of the “Share” object. The new shared object will have the same name as the “Share” object. When the “Share Into” objects are shared into the new shared object, they will become instances of the new shared object, and will therefore use its name, regardless of the names they had before they were shared.

Values in the Action column are non-editable when:

There is an existing shared object that matches the non-shared object. In this case, only Share Into is available.
In the Selection column, you have selected one (and only one) of a group of matching non-shared objects that have no matching existing shared object. In this case, only Share is available. If you subsequently select the Selection column check box of other objects in the group of matching non‑shared objects, the value in the Action column is enabled and you can use the dropdown lists to specify Share or Share Into for each object in the group.

The Matched By column shows the matching criteria together with the value of each criterion for each object in the table. See Matching Criteria for a description of how to specify the criteria that are used to determine which objects are considered matches.

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