Assigning a Comment to a Knowledge Feature

This tasks shows how to add comments to parameters and formulas using the URLs & Comment toolbox as well as the Properties dialog box.

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You can now edit the text that is displayed in the contextual bubbles when dragging your mouse over a relation or a parameter so that you can assign a text to a particular feature.

There are 2 ways to edit the text that is displayed in the contextual bubbles:

  1. Select the feature to which you want to add a comment.

  2. Click the Comment & URLs icon ().

  3. Enter the text you want to display in the Comment field.

  4. Click OK when done.

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  1. Right-click the relation in the specification tree.

  2. Select Properties.

  3. Enter the comment in the Comment field of the Properties dialog box.

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  • if you want the value of the parameter/formula to display, the "\V" combination must be used (see example below).
  • if no comment is added to the feature, the default name of the feature will be displayed.

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  1. Open the KwrComment.CATPart file. This file contains 3 Length type parameters and a formula that computes the length of a line.

  2. From the Start > Knowledgeware menu, access the Knowledge Advisor workbench.

  3. Click the Length.1 parameter in the specification tree and click the Comment & URLs icon ().

  4. In the Comment field, enter Length.1 is equal to Length.2: \V. Click OK when done.

  5. Right-click Formula.1 in the specification tree, and select Properties.

  6. In the Comment field of the Properties dialog box, enter the following text: Formula that computes the length of the line.

  7. Drag your cursor over Length.1 and Formula.1: The bubbles text is modified (see picture below.)

     

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