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When you wish to start editing a Model, an Entity or a Metadata, click on the ‘Edit’ button in the upper right corner of the screen.
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Picture 2. Edit contentYou can switch between the Edit and View modes in Ellie, depending on the situation.
2. When you are editing a large Model, you can free up visual space by showing and hiding the sidebar on the right.
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Picture 4. You can switch between the Edit and View modes in Ellie, depending on the situation3. Use the arrows to show and hide the sidebar from the right.
3. In order to add an Entity, use the drag’n’drop feature by selecting an entity from the sidebar and dragging it onto the place you wish it to reside in.
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Picture 54. Do a drag’n’drop swipe in order to add an Entity
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To browse content in Ellie, there is a view mode (any user that does not have Admin or Write privileges is automatically in the view mode).
Click on ‘View’
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Picture 65. You can switch between Editing and Viewing the content in Ellie, depending on the situation.
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2. Right-click on an entity to open a context menu, allowing you to, for example, view the Metadata of the Entity - such as seeing if there is a Description set for this specific Entity.
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Picture 76. Right-clicking will preview the Metadata from the selected Entity
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Right-click on the pale grey circle at the border of an Entity, doing this will open a dropdown menu allowing you to change the Relationship type.
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Picture 87. Select the preferred Relationship type
2. Click on the T in the top bar to add a free-format text box, excellent for further explaining the Relationship between these two Entities.
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Picture 98. Add additional information to Relationships by drag’n’dropping the T icon
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You can now add a description and choose where it will be displayed in. The options are: above, below, left of and right of the elbow. In the following example, a Relationship label “Additional information” will be attached to the Relationship between the Company and the Person Entities. The orange circle denotes a node in the Relationship, also referred to as the elbow.
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Picture 109. Editing relationships
Changing Entity Size
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