3 Modifying compounds in dataflow-view


Purpose

Demonstrate how to edit a compound properties within the data-flow view. We will concentrate on the edition of the members' properties.

First steps

We are going to compose and then edit it. This compound will be composed by the cubx-text-input and the cubx-marked-element components and it will allow to visualize external documents written using Markdown language.

First you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Open the latest version of BDE at: https://www.cubbles.world/bde/bde@1.9.0/bde/index.html
  2. Add the cubx-text-input and the cubx-marked-element
  3. Then connect the value output slot of cubx-text-input to the markdowdUrl input slot of cubx-marked-element.

After that, you should get the following component:

If you want to know how to perform those steps, check the 1 Compose a compound using BDE tutorial.

Modifying compound properties

Within the dataflow-view you can edit the Artifact Id and the Description of the component you are currently composing. To edit those properties you should right-click on an empty area of the dataflow-view. Then, a modal menu should appear, please click on edit. Finally, fill the dialog as follows:

PropertyValue
Artifact Idmarkdown-visualizer
DescriptionThis component allows to visualize external documents written using Markdown language