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Integration-Services-Diagram: Diagram tab

About the Diagram tab

The Integration-Services-Diagram comprises a set of elements common to all graphical tools (Diagrams and Atlas tabs) in the Composer product.

Refer to Working with graphical tools for details on the following common elements:

The Integration-Services-Diagram allows you to work graphically with a subset of the following objects:

After you complete the definition of all objects on the Diagram, you can:

Check each object included in the definition.
Send the Integration-Services-Diagram to Server. The software sends to Server all objects included in the Diagram.

What the Diagram shows

The Diagram tab provides a horizontal toolbar, a vertical toolbar, and a main screen area, where you graphically define the layout of your network of objects. This tab also provides an Overview pane that displays a global view of the Diagram. Via the Overview pane, you can focus on a specific area of the main screen display.

Horizontal toolbar

Create a new channel between two objects channel Undo last action icon Redo last action icon

Vertical toolbar

Overview

Properties pane

Horizontal toolbar

Use the icons on the horizontal toolbar to add new, undefined objects to the Diagram. Position the cursor over any icon to display a description of that icon.

Icon	Purpose
	To display the Properties window for the selected object on the Diagram.
	To refresh the display.
	To display or hide all Channels in parent Folders of the current Folder.
	To add Channels and endpoints to the selected object on the Diagram. The endpoints can be Applications or Partners.
	To add a new, undefined Partner to the Diagram.
	To add a new, undefined Application to the Diagram.
	To create a new Channel between two objects.
	To display a grid as background to the Diagram.
	To perform node layout: organize the objects on the Diagram.
	Ungroup: To remove a parent Host object from the Diagram and display only the software objects that belong to it.
	To delete the selected object.
	To undo last action.
	To redo last action.

Adding objects to the Diagram

The way you define your Integration-Services-Diagram, or in other words, the way you add objects to the Diagram, depends on your starting point. The Diagram tab provides three alternative starting points for defining an Integration-Services-Diagram:

You have defined no metadata objects.
You have defined all required Topography objects and all Applications, Partners and Channels.
You have defined some, but not all, of the required objects.

How to add existing objects to the Diagram

To position existing objects on the Diagram, drag-and-drop the object from the left pane or from the Entity Browser to the Diagram.

Drag-and-drop a...	to add...
HostGroup	the HostGroup and all the Hosts,Axway Servers and Partners that it contains.
Host	the Host and all the Axway Servers and Applications located on that Host.
Axway Server	the Axway Server to the Diagram.
Application	the Application to the Diagram.
Partner	the Partner to the Diagram.

If you drag-and-drop two software objects that have an existing Channel between them, Composer also adds the Channel object and displays the link on the Diagram.

How to add empty objects to the Diagram

If you have not yet defined any of the objects that you want to include in the Diagram, you can only use the Diagram as a design tool where you sketch an outline of the infrastructure. Although you can position empty objects on the Diagram, those objects have no meaning until you define and link them via a Channel.

On the horizontal toolbar above the Diagram, click the icon for the object that you want to insert. For example, to insert a new Application, click . The cursor changes to a cross.
Click on the Diagram where you want to position the object. The object icon is displayed on the Diagram.
To insert a second object of the same type, click on the Diagram again.
(Each time you click on the Diagram subsequently, you will re-insert the same object. To avoid this, click on the vertical toolbar to the left of the Diagram to restore the standard cursor.)
To insert a different object, select a different icon, then click on the Diagram again.
To display the object Properties window and complete its definition, select an object and click .
Create a Channel between software objects and Partners, as described next.