ActiveBPEL® Designer User’s Guide

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Expanding and Collapsing Container Activities

You can preserve Process Editor real estate by collapsing the container activities. The container activities are Sequence, If, While, Pick, Flow, Scope, Repeat Until, and For Each. They are listed in the Container palette.

To collapse a container, such as a scope, select the container, and select Collapse from the right-mouse menu. The small icon, illustrated in the collapsed scope below, indicates the container is collapsed. To expand a container, select it and select Expand from the right-mouse menu.

Tips for using Expand and Collapse

• By default, the link style changes to a dotted line for a link with one or more targets in a collapsed container, as the example above shows
• You can Expand All Containers and Collapse All Containers from the Process menu or from a blank spot on the Process Editor. Right-mouse select these options from the Process Editor.
• You can set a preference to control the positioning of expanded and collapsed containers in relation to other activities. The setting affects the overall look of the process design. For details, see Layout Preferences.
• You can Undo expand/collapse moves if you do not like the results

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