Adding Categories

In order to define a new category in a project...

1. Open the Project Navigator and click with the right mouse button in order to activate the context menu.

2. Choose Properties in the context menu.

3. In the following properties dialog you can select an object type from the point Administrate custom properties on the left side and add new categories in the Categories tab. There you also see all currently defined categories.

   

4. Via the button Add you can define new categories for the selected object type.

   

   • When defining a category the following attributes are to be specified:
     • a project-wide unique ID
       e. g. externalStakeholder
     • an arbitrary name
       e. g. external
     • optinally an icon
       Advice: If possible use only icons with 16x16 pixels, as the quality might be reduced due to the automated scaling of icons that are too big.
   • Afterwards click on Ok. You will see the newly generated category in the table of the existing categories.
5. Assign the desired custom properties to the the category, by selecting the corresponding checkboxes.