Introduction

The Application scope is the default "view" for any Application. It presents items in the Application in varying different grouping methods and in different layers:

Accessing the Application scope

To access the Application scope, click the Application scope entry in the Investigation panel - this is default selection when first entering an Application:

Perspective selection

By default, the perspective (how the data is displayed) will be set to CAST Taxonomy (the default layout configured by CAST Imaging) and Level 5 (most detail before individual objects are displayed) - you can find out more about the Perspective options in User Guide - GUI, however, you are free to choose different perspective options:

Navigating the view

Levels

Levels 1 - 5 are available for selection when CAST Taxonomy aggregation is selected in the Investigate panel - these levels provide ever greater details about the items within the Application. When other aggregation options are enabled (Modules, Services, Architecture Models), only Level 1 and Objects are available:

Actions

Action	Location	Result/Behavior
Double click on node	Level 1 - 4	Drill down to the next level.
	Level 5	Drill down to Vignette mode i.e.: Objects level + drill mode Children + Caller/Callee + Group by communities (depending on the object selected). See also User Guide - GUI for more information on Drill and Communities modes. Click to expand Note that this action is equivalent to the right click options Children + caller/callee. If more than 500 child nodes exist, then a popup will be displayed allowing you to search for the objects you need to view: To use the selective expand: Enter a search term to list matching objects - tick the objects you wish to view (or use the Select All menu): Use the Expand with and Number of objects options to restrict the results:
	Objects and Vignette mode	Expand and investigate the selected object.
Shift + Double click on white space	All levels	Drill up to the next level.
Right click on node	Levels 1 - 4	Properties > Displays information about the node in the right hand slide in panel:
	Level 5	Children + X > Drill down into Vignette mode for further investigation. See also User Guide - GUI for more information on Drill and Communities modes. Add edge > See User Guide - Working with custom links. Search > Invokes the standard search options for the selected object. See User Guide - Search for items. Properties > Displays information about the node in the right hand slide in panel:
	Vignette mode	Expand All > Expand and investigate the selected node (same as double click) Hide node > Use this to hide selected nodes. To unhide, either use the "Undo" option or refresh the page. It is not possible to hide a concept node or a group node, in which case the option will not be available. Properties > Displays information about the node in the right hand slide in panel:
	Objects	Add callers/callees > Retrieves all caller/called objects. Links are added to the selected object and to any other objects present where a link exists. The number in square brackets in the contextual menu indicates the number of items available. Add linked objects > See User Guide - Using the Add linked objects feature for more information. Add 2 levels of Callers/Callees > Same principal as the Add Callers/Callees options, but instead displays two levels of objects. Show source code > See See User Guide - Viewing source code. Hide node > Use this to hide selected nodes. To unhide, either use the "Undo" option or refresh the page. It is not possible to hide a concept node or a group node, in which case the option will not be available. Properties > Displays information about the object in the right hand slide in panel:
Single click on edge	Levels 1 - 5	N/A
Single click on edge	Objects and Vignette mode	Displays all the methods that are linked between classes and provides additional actions such as: view source code method information add caller/callees See User Guide - Using the Method view for more information.
Double click on edge	Levels 1 - 4	Drill-down to the next level will occur and the node/links involved in the clicked edge will be highlighted. All other nodes will be masked (reduced opacity): Example of double clicking an edge/link in Level 3 - click to enlarge
	Level 5	View will open showing the contents (child objects and caller/callees on child objects - child objects are grouped by object type) of the edge/link that was double clicked. A "vignette" is displayed in the upper left (can be moved as required) to indicate original location of the selected edge/link. Click to enlarge
	Objects and Vignette mode	N/A

Page tree

User Guide - Application scope