Topology view

The topology view (or “canvas”) is the central graphical configuration area of the TC3 IoT Data Agent configurator. It shows the following components of a configuration:

• The configured gates, channels and symbols
• The relationship (mapping) between gates, channels and symbols
• The cardinality on each relationship

The topology view can be used to create and edit a configuration. Simply right-click the canvas to open the context menu and select from the variety of configuration options, e.g. to create a new gate, attach a new channel to a gate or remove a component from the configuration.

You can move any object in the topology view by dragging it to a new position. Each attached subcomponent is moved together with its parent. Optionally, you can also hide a subcomponent by clicking the expand button of its parent. When saving a configuration, the position of each object is saved in the configuration file.

In order to make navigational tasks a little easier, the topology view supports the following functionalities:

• Scrollbars for vertical and horizontal navigation
• Vertical navigation via mouse wheel
• Horizontal navigation via mouse wheel and SHIFT key (press and hold)
• ZoomIn/ZoomOut via mouse wheel and CTRL key (press and hold)

Instead of the topology view you can also use the tree view for configuration, but the topology view might give a better graphical overview of the currently configuration (see Tree view)