Multi-Row Views
Views in WorkBench are now defined in a tabular manner, and may consist of several rows as well as several columns. View cells may be spanned across rows and columns. The contents of a cell are defined in the same manner as in previous versions of Cradle. The contents of a cell can be cut, copied and pasted to allow views to be changed very easily.
This provides much greater flexibility in the formatting of data in views:
For example, the view of individual items can be spread across multiple rows:
with a view definition that would be:
It can also be used to show each linked item across multiple rows:
for which the view definition would be the same as when the linked items are shown with all attributes in a single row, except that a different view is used to show the linked items, a view that displays each linked item over more than one row:
or to show linked items underneath the item to which they refer:
where the view definition would be:
in which the linked items are displayed by a cell in the second row of the view definition, and this cell is spanned across two of the cells in the first row. To aid readability, the requirements’ identity is shown by view cells that span both rows |
