The property arrangement specifies the arrangement of the placed property texts and their display settings at a function. You have the possibility of creating own user-defined property arrangements. The user-defined property arrangements are saved project-specifically and are assigned to the symbol variant for which it was created. Therefore such a property arrangement is only available for functions with the same symbol variant. For part placements in the layout space the property arrangements are assigned to the function definition and are correspondingly available for part placements with the same function definition respectively.
The property arrangement can also be assigned in the case of editing in a table, during external editing and in placeholder objects.
- When editing functions in tables you can display the Property arrangement column and select a property arrangement from the drop-down list. The list contains all the property arrangements that are available for the respective symbol variant.
- When creating schemes for external editing, you can select the property arrangement in the Settings: External editing dialog as format element, thereby considering the respective data during export and import.
- You can use the Property arrangement (ID 19307) property in the properties dialog of placeholder objects and assign the user-defined property arrangements as value sets through a variable. The corresponding property arrangements have to exist in the project to this purpose.
- You can also assign existing property arrangements through a user-defined button in the toolbar. To do so use the Customize dialog to select the action XEsSetPropertyAction and use the ID 19307 of the Property arrangement property as the value for the PropertyId parameter.
Creating property arrangements
Precondition:
You have opened a project.
- Select a component in the graphical editor or a function in a project data navigator. Or select a part placement in a layout space.
- Select the menu item Edit > Properties.
- In the Properties <...> dialog, select the Display tab.
- Select the "User-defined" entry from the Property arrangement drop-down list and edit the property arrangement.
- Use the
(New) and 
(Delete) buttons to add further properties to the list or remove unnecessary ones. - Use the buttons
(Cut) or 
(Copy) to cut or copy the properties selected in the list together with their set display properties. At a different component these properties can be inserted below the selected property into the list of the other property arrangement by using the button 
(Paste). Properties that cannot be used at a component are not taken into consideration during pasting. (Through such an action the property arrangement is set to "user-defined" at the target component.) - In the list of properties, select the property for which you would like to define the display settings. The default values for the individual fields are taken from the "Default value".
- Edit the display properties in the Property / Assignment table.
- Click
(Save). - Enter the name for the property arrangement in the Save property arrangement dialog or select an existing name from the drop-down list.
- Activate the Use as default check box if you want to specify the property arrangement as the default for all further usages of this symbol variant (at functions) / function definition (at part placements).
- Confirm your entries.
The property arrangement is stored and is assigned to the symbol variant. At part placements the property arrangement is assigned to the function definition. If you have defined the property arrangement as the default, this is used by default for the corresponding symbol variant, for example when inserting a symbol. At part placements the property arrangement is used by default for the corresponding function definition.
Tip:
You can use the 
(Export) and 
(Import) buttons to export the stored user-defined property arrangements of a symbol variant and to import them into a different project.
Notes:
- If you overwrite a user-defined property arrangement, the modified display settings are transferred automatically to all the functions that use this property arrangement. This behavior also applies to the importing of property arrangements. If you overwrite one or more property arrangements during importing, the changed display settings are also transferred automatically to those functions that use these property arrangements.
- The user-defined property arrangements are compared when copying and pasting pages or functions into a different project or when inserting macros. The name of the property arrangement at the function is retained if the property arrangements are identical or if the property arrangement does not yet exist in the project. If a property arrangement with the same name already exists in the project and is not identical with the property arrangement at the function, the project setting Apply property arrangements from the project decides which property arrangement is to be used.
- In a layout space the behavior described above for functions applies correspondingly for the part placements.
- The property selection is opened through the
(Edit) button. This makes it possible to replace a property in the property arrangement by another one (for example the property DT (displayed) by the property DT (full)).
Reset property arrangements
Preconditions:
- You have opened a page in the graphical editor.
- You have created at least one user-defined property arrangement.
- Select one or more functions that use a user-defined property arrangement in the graphical editor or in a project data navigator. Or select a part placement in a layout space.
- Select the menu item Edit > Text > Reset property arrangement. The property arrangement is reset to the default setting for the selected functions / part placements. This is either the setting "Default setting" or the property arrangement that you have specified as the default.
Tip:
You can also restore the default settings directly in the property dialog. In the Display tab, select the "Default setting" entry from the Property arrangement drop-down list; all your settings will then be replaced by the defaults.
See also