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	System Hierarchy

Working with Items

This section describes some ways of manipulating items in the system hierarchy.

Adding and Deleting Items

When you create a project, the first item is added automatically to the system hierarchy. To add more items, follow any of the instructions below. The new item will be added to the bottom of the list for the associated level.

To add a new top-level (system) item, choose System Hierarchy > Add > Add System.

To add a new item to the next level below a selected item, choose System Hierarchy > Add > Add Next Level Item.

To add a new item to the same level as a selected item, choose System Hierarchy > Add > Add Same Level Item.

To delete an item from the system hierarchy, select the item and press DELETE. The item will be deleted, along with all sub-items and all associated analyses and attachments. There is no undo for deleting an item or the system hierarchy.

Moving Items

You can move items within the system hierarchy by dragging them to the desired location. The moved item will be added to the level of the item that you drag it onto, and it will be inserted above that item. When an item is moved, all associated analyses and attachments will also be moved. You can also move the items in the system hierarchy using any of the following instructions.

Choose Home > Move Record > Promote or Home > Move Record > Demote to move the selected item to the next higher level or the next lower level in the system hierarchy. An item can be demoted only if there is another item on the same level and above the selected item that it can be demoted under.

Choose Home > Move Record > Up or Home > Move Record > Down to move the selected item up or down within its current level.

Cutting/Copying Items

You can cut or copy items in the system hierarchy and paste them to the same project or to another project within the same database. (Please note that if you want to share items between different databases, you must use the import/export functionality.) To select multiple items:

Click the first item and then press CTRL and click additional items.

Click the first item, then press SHIFT and click another item to select all items between and including the two.

After you select the items, you can use the standard keyboard shortcuts for cut/copy (CTRL+X and CTRL+C) or you can choose Home > Clipboard > Cut to cut them or Home > Clipboard > Copy to copy them. When an item is cut or copied, all next-level items also will be cut or copied, along with any analyses and attachments.

Tip: You can also choose Home > Clipboard > Copy Active View to copy the currently visible contents of the System panel or Analysis panel to the Clipboard as a graphic that can be pasted into other applications. The entire visible area within the active panel will be copied but any information that is not currently visible will be excluded.

Pasting Items

You can paste an item as a dependent to another item in the same project or to another project within the same database by opening that project and pressing CTRL+V or choosing Home > Clipboard > Paste. The item will be pasted as a dependent to the selected item in the hierarchy.

To paste the cut or copied item as a system, choose Home > Clipboard > Paste > Paste As Top Level.

You also can choose Home > Clipboard > Paste > Paste Special to open the Paste Special window, which allows you to choose the level at which the cut or copied item will be pasted to the system hierarchy, and whether dependents and/or analyses will be pasted along with it.

If an item is cut or copied and then deleted from the project, the copied data will also be deleted from the Clipboard. In addition, once an item has been cut or copied, any edits that are made to the original will also be applied to its copy in the Clipboard. Also note that you will not be able to cut or copy an item in a project that is locked by another user.