Composer toolbar

In IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, the toolbar in Composer contains many icons that you can use to work on your model quickly and easily.

Multi-Edit icon
When you work in Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can use single-edit mode or multi-edit mode. To select a mode, click the Multi-Edit icon.
Link icon
To link components together in Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can click the Link icon.
Arrange icon
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can click the Arrange icon to automatically arrange the components and elements into a logical pattern.
Visibility icon
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can choose to show or hide components and objects.
All icon
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, if you are viewing only a select number of elements, you can choose to make all elements visible again.
Uses and Used By icons
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can see which objects the selected object uses as data sources. You can also see which objects use the selected object as a data source.
Go To icon
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can view objects in Uses or Used By mode. You can click the Go To icon to view the top level of Composer or the last component that you viewed.
View Connection icon
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can see where a selected connection was added and where the connection is being used.
Purging table history
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can clear the history for specified tables, including data from any locked periods.
Purging table and calculation data
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can clear the data from calculations and data type tables that are associated with a period in a specific calendar. Data in data tables and calculations is removed up to and including the selected period.
Converting tables to effective dated tables
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can convert any hierarchy, custom, or structural table to a table with effective dates.
Running a calculation in Composer
You can run a full model calculation from the Composer module in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management.
Sidebar
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, the sidebar contains the Palette tab, the Navigation tab, and the Overview pane.
Viewer icon
When you click the Viewer icon, a window opens below the Composer window in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management. When you select a table or a calculation, you can see the data and results in the Viewer window.
Font icon
You can choose font style, type, size of text, effect, and script types in Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management. When you change the font, the text of every component changes accordingly.
Pasting formats from one component to another
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can copy the format options of a component and apply them to another component.
Connection lines
In Composer in IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can choose to show or hide all connection lines. The Collapse Links icon hides connection lines in the Composer window.
Exporting the Composer diagram
In IBM^® Incentive Compensation Management, you can export the Composer diagram to an image file.

Parent topic: Composer