Tips and tricks

The navigation panel on the left provides the main navigation of Blueriq Encore. It can be used to select a repository, branch, project, or module, and to open views. These views contain the content of an element in an editor, or other content, such as the history, group access, pending changes. 

Branch switch

After a branch switch, Blueriq Encore will retain the previously opened project, module, and views if they exist in the selected branch. This allows you to easily compare content between branches. 

Ctrl+click vs. shift+click to references

A view often contains references to other elements. This may be in a dropdown, an expression, or a plain reference. There are two ways to navigate to a reference: using ctrl+click and shift+click. When pressing the ctrl- or shift button, clickable references will be underlined. 

• Ctrl+click will navigate to the reference within the same view, creating a stack of views.
  • You may use the arrows in the title bar () to navigate back and forth within this stack of views.
  • The pin-icon () in the title bar can split the stack of views into two (stacks of) views.
• Shift+click will navigate to the element in a new view.

Browser back button

You may also use the back/forward button of the web browser. A long click on one of these buttons in Edge, Chrome, or Firefox will show your history showing the browser page titles. These correspond with the titles of the views in Blueriq Encore.  

Browser zoom 

You can make everything larger or smaller using the zoom function of the browser (ctrl+scroll) for optimal readability of your model. 

Browser URL

The URL contains the stack of views that are currently open. This URL can be shared with others or used by yourself.

From the navigation menu

Elements can be created from the navigation menu. Use the "Create another" checkbox to quickly create multiple elements of the same type.

From a reference drop-down

Use the drop down to create and select an element that does not exist yet, just by typing the name of the to be created element. If this name is unique, an option to create this element will appear.

From the entity editor

Use the entity editor to create relations or attributes from the current entity. You can even provide a data type for a new attribute. For example: "PhoneNumber,i" will create a new attribute named "PhoneNumber" of data type integer in the current entity.