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Organizing Properties |
In many situations, the Project Table can contain a large number of properties. Maestro provides a number of tools for organizing these properties, so that you can show only the ones that are relevant to the current task and hide the rest, or find particular properties.
Properties are classified into groups, or families, according to the application that generated them. Within each property family, the properties are classified into primary and secondary properties, each of which is also considered a family. If you want to organize properties into families that suit your own purposes, you can do so in the Manage Custom Property Families panel, which allows you to create, edit, and delete custom families.
You can show or hide properties by using the Show button on the
Property toolbar
or the items under
Property → Show. The options available to you are:
You can show or hide property families with Property → Show Only Family and Property → Hide Family. These submenus list the families that are available in the project, including primary and secondary families.
You can also show and hide properties, and find properties, using the Property Tree panel, which you can open with the
Tree button on the
Property toolbar
or with Property → Tree.
This panel is docked to the right of the properties in the table by default.
The tree is organized by families, with one node for each family, and nodes underneath it for the primary and secondary properties, with properties sorted alphabetically under each node. Click on the turner (+ or −) to show or hide the next level. If you want to expand or collapse all branches of the tree, right-click on any family (but not on a node) and choose Expand All or Collapse All.
The properties that are shown in the tree can be filtered, by entering the text you want to match in the search text box. This text can include wildcard characters: * to match any number of characters, ? to match a single character; and it can include character sets enclosed in square brackets, such as [a-z]. Filtering is done as you type, and the tree displays only the nodes that contain properties that match the filter. To show the full tree again, click the clear (X) button at the right side of the text box.
To show or hide any property or any group of properties (a property family, or the primary or secondary properties of a family), click the appropriate check box. If a group of properties has some but not all of its properties shown (checked), the check mark is gray, to indicate that the group is incompletely shown.
Since properties can belong to more than one family, when you select a property or a group of properties to be shown, other groups or properties can be selected. For example, selecting the secondary family for Glide also selects the Glide Residue Interactions family, because this family is a subset of Glide secondary properties.
Even after hiding many properties, the property you want to examine might not be shown in the part of the table that is in view. To bring the property into view, you can scroll the table horizontally, or you can right-click on a property in the property tree and choose Scroll Into View.
To move a property column, you can
Drag the column header to the desired location. This works for moving properties between the fixed area and the scrolling area as well as within these areas.
Use the Move To item on the shortcut menu for the column. This menu has the following items: , , , , , , , and . If a choice of a property is needed to complete the move, a property selector opens so you can choose the property.
Choose Property → Columns → Reorder
and make the desired changes in the order of the properties in the
Reorder
Properties dialog box. You can also open this dialog box from the
Columns button menu on the
Property toolbar.
Columns that are moved to the fixed area are placed after the standard fixed columns.
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