Mask Left Panel Tabs¶

The vertical tabs on the left side of the stage provide panels which allow performing general operations on the current Mask.

The left panel consists of five tabs, each enabling the user to perform different operations on the Mask, such as adding and editing options or connections which will be subsequently used through the components of the mask, edit the general characteristics of the mask, visualize a list of the Components used in the current mask.

The available tabs are:

Summary Tab¶

The Summary tab displays all the general characteristics of the mask.

To edit it, click on the Pencil icon located in the top-right corner of the tab, so that the Edit window opens. The following options are available:

Subsection	Option	Description
Title	Enable parametric mask	If selected, the mask supports parametric options, too.
	Show title	If selected (default), the title of the mask, written in the Title field, is displayed.
	Title	The title of the mask.
	Title color	It defines the title’s color. By clicking on the color, which is white by default, a popup opens, where Standard colors can be used, as well as Rgb, Hex, Hsl and Hsv colors and generated color palettes.
	Title background color	It defines the title’s background color, which is the stripe located on top of the mask. By clicking on the color, which is blue by default, a popup opens, where Standard colors can be used, as well as Rgb, Hex, Hsl and Hsv colors and generated color palettes.
Width	Width (px)	It defines the width of the Mask window in pixel. The default value is set at 750 px.
	Min width (-1 means no min)	It defines the minimum width in pixel for the mask panel, which means that during the mask window resizing, the width of the mask won’t be lower than this value. The default value is -1, which means there’s no limit to width resizing of the mask window.
	Max width (-1 means no max)	It defines the maximum width in pixel for the mask panel, which means that during the mask window resizing, the width of the mask won’t be higher than this value. The default value is -1, which means there’s no limit to width resizing of the mask window.
Height	Height (px)	It defines the height of the Mask window in pixel. The default value is set at 600 px.
	Min height (-1 means no min)	It defines the minimum height in pixel for the mask panel, which means that during the mask window resizing, the height of the mask won’t be lower than this value. The default value is -1, which means there’s no limit to height resizing of the mask window.

Options Tab¶

The Options tab contains a list of the options available, which can be used in the Controllers in the Mask.

As Options are basically default values definitions, this tab is filled with existing variables, which have been configured in the Variables tab.

Warning

If a Open modal window event is being configured, the Options tab is automatically filled with the view’s Variables, if there are any. If a Compute flow event is being configured, the Options tab is automatically filled with the corresponding flow Variables, if there are any.

Options can be edited by clicking on the Pencil icon located in the top-right corner of the tab, so that the Edit window opens: this means that if the value is modified, the variable’s value will be overwritten by the new value.

Once the Edit option window opens, the following fields are available:

Name: the name of the option, which will be displayed in the Option drop-down list in the Controllers. It cannot be modified.
Default: the default value of the option, enclosed in “”. This value will be displayed when opening the Mask on the corresponding Controller.
Description: the description of the option, which will be displayed in the tooltip when hovering over the associated Controller in the Mask.
Required: if selected, it is mandatory to specify the option’s value in the Controller which will have this option specified in the Option field.
Ignore value: if selected, the new value which has been inserted in the Default field will be ignored in the associated Controller.
Sensitive: if selected, the value is considered sensitive.

To save the modifications to the Options tab, click SAVE. To close the window without saving any change, click DISCARD.

It is possible to use Options by setting them in the component’s layout menu in the corresponding Options field, or they can be dragged onto Controllers. The same Option can be associated to multiple Controllers.

Once an option has been modified, meaning its value has been overwritten using the settings in the window, its row turns blue. The row also turns blue if the option has been assigned to a Component.

Graphics Tab¶

The Graphics tab contains a list of all the Components used in the current mask. A magnifier icon is available in the top-right corner of the tab to search among the components the desired one.

In this tab, it is possible to interact with the Components by right-clicking on them, so that the context menu opens.

In the Graphics context menu, the following options are available:

Open widget layout: it opens the component’s layout menu.
Rename: it allows to rename the selected component.
Copy: it copies the selected component.
Paste: it pastes the selected component.
Delete: it deletes the selected component.

Connections Tab¶

In the Connections tab, it is possible to visualize and edit the connections which will be used in the components on the mask.

To add and set up new connections, click on the pencil icon located in the top-right corner of the tab to open the Connections Manager.

More details on how to work in the Connections Manager are provided in the corresponding page.

Connections