When the configuration area is focused, you can transfer the focus back to the tree of installer elements
with the keyboard by pressing ALT-F1
.
The tree of installer elements provides the following actions in the toolbar on the right that operate on the current selection. You can also access these actions from the context menu or use the associated keyboard shortcuts.
In order to visit all comments, you can use the [Show next comment] and [Show previous comment] actions. These actions will focus the comment area automatically and wrap around if no further comments can be found.
Pasted installer elements are appended to the end of the same level that would be chosen if you added installer elements of that type. Sequence restrictions with respect to the already present installer elements may force a different order.
You can dissolve a group with the [Dissolve Group] action. This action is only enabled if the selection consists of a single screen group or action group. The elements contained in the group will be inserted in place of the group. Nested groups will not be dissolved.
In order to link to a screen, action, screen group or action group, you click on the add button and select Add Link Into from the popup menu. The first entry in that popup menu is always "This project" for links into the current project. If you have set up merged projects, then you get an entry for each merged project. The configuration area of a link will only contain a button that selects the original definition in the tree of installer elements. For merged projects, the merged project is opened in a new window, unless it is already open.
Another way to add a link into the same project is to select the installer element
and invoke the
[Copy Link] action. Then you
navigate to the installer element where the link should be inserted and invoke the
[Paste Link] action.
For links into the same project, install4j ensures that there are no broken links in the tree of installer elements. When you delete an installer element, all links to it will be deleted as well. If that is the case, the deletion message will tell you how many links are about to be deleted. Links into merged projects may be broken, this condition is shown in in the configuration pane.