See User Guide - GUI - Investigate panel.

See User Guide - Reports.

Use this option to help build layouts with nodes/objects that are equidistance from each other. When enabled, additional guide lines will be added to the view when arranging nodes/objects:

Provides three menu options:

Rectangle selection - allows the selection of multiple items.

Lasso selection - allows the selection of multiple items free hand.

The selection enables you to group specific sets of objects/technologies into single nodes:

To group selected nodes:

• Select the nodes, using either Rectangle or Lasso selection.
• Use the Grouping Features option and select Group selected nodes. All the selected nodes are grouped:

• Right click on "Grouped node" to rename the group (optional):

To ungroup, right click the grouped node and click Ungroup:

Visual Grouping

There are two types of Visual Grouping:

• Levels 1 - 5
  OFF by default, but can be applied using the button on the toolbar. This type of grouping allows you to apply level 1 grouping when you are in level 5
  
  
• Object level
  Available in ≥ 2.16, ON by default. This groups objects according to the "aggregated by" option you have chosen. E.g. if you have chosen "Module", then objects are automatically "grouped" by Module.
  You have to double click a link between nodes to get to object level and then the grouping is applied automatically.

See User Guide - Working with inserts or comments.

Add tags feature

See User Guide - Working with tags.

Diagram options:

• Object Label
• Relationship Label
• Badge

Object Label: Hide/unhide:

This option helps to hide and unhide the Object Label.

Relationship Label: Hide/unhide:

This option shows the relationship between two objects.

Badge: Shows the number of objects in a node (it does not include objects of other nodes). You can hide/unhide it.

Toggles between grouped links/edges (default position) and ungrouped.

Explanation: some links/edges in the drill down view will be "highlighted". This indicates that there is more than one link between the objects and therefore these links/edges are grouped:

Using the Ungroup links option, all links between the two objects will be displayed:

Use the option again to toggle between the two states (grouped/ungrouped).

Enables you to hide selected objects from the view. Also available in the right click contextual menu.

Only visible when the Tutorial feature is enabled for your login.

Displays the Tutorial - an interactive guide to help understand the various features available in CAST Imaging. It provides an application walkthrough using three major steps to explain application architecture, drill down capabilities and annotations. Each step has a set of actions defined for you to work through. Certain actions also have a help button to identify the elements. Following all the steps and actions will provide a better understanding of the core CAST Imaging capabilities:

Provides three menu options:

• What's new
• Help
• Documentation

Available in CAST Imaging ≥ 2.18.0

Lets you access the following pages:

• What's new page: What's new
• Help: CAST Imaging - User Guide
• Documentation: CAST Imaging

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When a node is selected, clicking this icon will show the Object Properties dialog:

If the object properties cannot be retrieved in a timely manner, a retry button will be displayed:

Visible only in the Object level view in all scopes when at least one object is selected. The Show callees option highlights all objects that are called by the selected object. In the example below, the selected object is "SalesCreated.html" and two other objects are shown as being called: the display_date function (part of the date.js file) and the date.js file itself:

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Visible only in the Object level view in all scopes when at least one object is selected. The Show path option highlights all paths between selected objects - if a path exists:

• By default, the button is displayed but disabled when one object is selected:

• When two objects are selected (use the mouse click and the CTRL key to select the additional object) the button is enabled:

When the Show path button is clicked, if a path exists between the two selected objects, it will be highlighted, otherwise a message will explain that no paths can be found.

Example

In the example below, the selected source object is "CreateOrdersInvoice" (SQL Server Procedure) and the SQL Server Table object "Invoice" has been selected as the target. Then, ALL paths between the two are highlighted in red:

This icon is only visible in in Saved views and Search views modes. It enables you to create multiple "views" or "vignettes" to investigate a specific set of items. Vignettes can be created from the "base" view in Saved views and Search views modes.

View creation

To create the view, select the items you are interested in, then click the Create View option. The view "vignette" will be created (click to enlarge):

View

• Each view can be dragged holding on to the drag icon present in the bottom right and dragging it.

• The view can be re-centered by clicking the icon in the bottom left.

Save view

You can save the contents of the currently selected vignette in a "saved view", by clicking the Save icon in the top right;

Delete view

• Each view can be deleted by clicking the close icon in the top right corner of the view. You will be prompted before the delete occurs.

Use this to change levels. Only available in Application scope and CAST Taxonomy aggregation mode. This has the same effect as using the drop down:

In the majority of scenarios, this button will be disabled (gray). However, when accessing a node (double click) which contains more than 1000 child nodes, or more than 2000 edges (thresholds can be changed in Configuring display preferences), a progressive rendering system is invoked in order to avoid situations where the rendering process locks the browser. Portions of the full graph are displayed progressively in steps and when this occurs, a message will be displayed in the bottom right corner:

Closing the message will reveal the Stop icon enabled and flashing in a blue colour. You can click this button to stop the progressive loading.

Visible only in Level 5 views when using the view/vignette, or in other views in where the vignette is available (Architecture model mode, Module view mode etc.):

The options will:

• expand all (ungroup) all nodes in one go
• collapse all (regroup) all nodes in one go (only displayed once the Expand All option has been selected).

The Stop Layout button allows the user to stop the graph loading when a very large graph is requested. 

When accessing a node (double click) which contains more than 1000 child nodes, or more than 2000 edges (thresholds can be changed in Configuring display preferences), a progressive rendering system is invoked in order to avoid situations where the rendering process locks the browser. Portions of the full graph are displayed progressively in steps and when this occurs, a message will be displayed in the centre:

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Clicking either of these items in the legend will highlight any matching object/node in the view. For example, the tag "TEST" has been clicked and one object is highlighted in the view which has been tagged with this tag: