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.
- To change assignments by using the Library view:
- To assign a category to an additional parent:
- Right-click the custom category and select Assign.
The assign dialog opens.
- From the tree view, choose the categorized element destination and click OK.
- To reassign a category to a new parent category
or the top-level categories folder:
- Right-click the custom category and select Reassign.
The Reassign dialog opens.
- From the tree view, choose the categorized element destination and click OK.
- To unassign a category that is a sub-category of more than one
parent category:
- 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.
- Select Yes to confirm. If other parent categories
still reference the category then the category is removed without confirmation.
- (Optional) To change assignments by using the method element editor:
- Open the custom category element to which you want to assign
new children to in the Method element editor and select the Assign tab.
- Click Assign. The Select window is displayed.
- From the tree view, select the method element that you want
to assign to the custom category and click OK.
- Click Unassign to remove elements from
the category.
- To save your changes, click or close the editor and click Yes when
prompted to save the changes.