Property Grid Options

Lets you define the look and feel of how the properties display in the Placement dialog when you place an OpenPlant Support Engineering support component. This includes how the different sections are laid out, the display of grid lines, image display etc.

Accessed by selecting the Property UI Settings icon from the Class Browser Tool ribbon.

The dialog has four tabs each described in the sections below.

Property

This tab defines the basics of how the properties in the Placement dialog are organized and displayed. The options let you decide whether or not to display grid lines and whether the properties are displayed in a flat view (ungrouped), or if they are categorized. By default, the options are set as follows:

The table below will detail each option:

Setting	Description
Show Horizontal Lines	Controls the display of the horizontal grid lines in the properties dialog.
Show Vertical Lines	Controls the display of the vertical grid lines in the properties dialog.
Allow Header Re-Order	This allows you to rearrange the order of the category header by dragging and dropping the header into a new position.
Show Categories	Groups the property settings into categories which can be expanded to view the properties within. Sort Alphabetically within category - Sorts the property fields within the categories in alphabetical order.
Alignment	Determines the text justification of the values in the property fields. Left Center Right

Example

The image on the left below displays how the Properties dialog displays with the default settings as opposed to the image to the right in which the default options have been disabled. Notice the property fields are displayed in a flat view with no categories such as Project Identity, Catalog etc. to distinguish the groups. Also notice the grid lines are not present in the right image.

Category

The options in this tab control how the information in the categories are displayed.

The table below will detail each option:

Setting	Description
Show Property in Tabs	This option determines whether the properties in the Properties dialog are displayed in tabbed sections. For example, if an assembly is being placed which contains multiple components, then the property fields for each component are displayed in a separate tab.
Location	Determines the location of the Properties tab in the dialog. The example below is for an assembly with a Left tab location.
Orientation	When the properties are displayed in tabbed sections, this option determines which direction the property tab header will be oriented. Horizontal: The header is oriented from left to right. Vertical: The header is oriented from bottom to top.

Row

These options help to define how the property values in a grid row are displayed.

The table below will detail each option:

Setting	Description
Offset Control Selection	When a grid is shown in the Properties dialog, it not displayed over the Property items, but instead offset to the side as shown below.
Best Fit Columns	This option sizes the column widths in the grid which best fits the value with the most characters.
Show Group Column Filter	Filter area under each column header where you can enter a value to use to filter the column.
Show Group Auto Filter	Filter area under each column header where you can enter a value to use to filter the column.
Bold Modified Value	When this option is enabled, whenever you make a change to a value in the Properties dialog, the modified value will display in bold font.

Image Display

If an image is to be included in the placement dialog for certain components, the location options determine where it will be displayed.

Once all of the Property Grid Options have been defined, click OK to apply the changes. The changes will be applicable in the next OpenPlant Support Engineering modeling session.