The Connection Browser displays existing connections between the SysML model elements and repository elements. Five characteristics of each connection are shown:
- SysML Element
- Connection (shows the connection ID)
- Connection Type
- Repository owning the repository element connected to the SysML element
- Artifacts – repository elements connected to the SysML element
The connections are presented per the SysML model element structure. When a SysML model element is expanded, such as the Aircraft Platform block shown in figure below, the connections for that element can be seen, such as connection C52 (highlighted) between the Aircraft Platform block and Aircraft Platform part version A.12 in a Windchill repository. A single SysML element can have 0 or more connections associated with it.
Right clicking on a single row (or multiple selected7 rows) in the table provides several options. If the row is a SysML element, the first three options allow the user to expand, collapse, or refresh the display of sub-elements or connections within that element. If the row contains a Syndeia connection (blue icon under SysML element), the top three options are grayed out. The Go to option allows users to switch to another package—different from the one whose contents are currently displayed.
Each column may be filtered by clicking on the column header. The choices are
- (All) – All rows are shown
- (Empty) – Only rows where this column is empty are shown
- (Custom…) – A custom filter dialog box is shown. Only rows whose contents obey the filtering criterion are shown.
- Specific selections that appear in that column
For example, to view only those SysML elements that have a connection to one or more repository element, apply the “is not empty” condition on the Connection column. Similarly, to view all connections to a specific repository (such as a MySQL repository) apply a filter to the Repository column.