Assigning categorized elements

You can organize custom categories in a hierarchy, which means that you can create a category as a child of another category. Child categories can be referenced by more than one parent category. In the hierarchy, you are building nested custom categories that can use operations such as Assign or Reassign to influence the structure of that hierarchy.

To change the assignment of custom categories in a hierarchy of categorized elements (For example, to reassign a sub-category to a new or additional parent category), you can use either the Library view or the method element editor.
  1. To change assignments by using the Library view:
    1. To assign a category to an additional parent:
      1. Right-click the custom category and select Assign. The assign dialog opens.
      2. From the tree view, choose the categorized element destination and click OK.
    2. To reassign a category to a new parent category or the top-level categories folder:
      1. Right-click the custom category and select Reassign. The Reassign dialog opens.
      2. From the tree view, choose the categorized element destination and click OK.
    3. To unassign a category that is a sub-category of more than one parent category:
      1. Right-click the custom category and select Unassign. If this category is its last occurrence in the method plug-in, the Remove dialog will open and warn you that the entire category will be deleted.
      2. Select Yes to confirm. If other parent categories still reference the category then the category is removed without confirmation.
  2. (Optional) To change assignments by using the method element editor:
    1. Open the custom category element to which you want to assign new children to in the Method element editor and select the Assign tab.
    2. Click Assign. The Select window is displayed.
    3. From the tree view, select the method element that you want to assign to the custom category and click OK.
    4. Click Unassign to remove elements from the category.
    5. To save your changes, click File > Save or close the editor and click Yes when prompted to save the changes.