User's Manual

Building Streams

Figure 5-34

Stream with comments added

Others can then view these comments on-screen, or you can print out an image of th e stream

that includes the comments.

You can list all the comments for a stream or SuperNode, change the order of comments in the

list, edit the comme nt text, and change the foreground or background color of a comment. For

more in f ormati on, se e the topic Listing Stream Commen ts on p. 84.

You can also add notes in the form of text annotations to streams, nodes and nuggets by

means of the Annotati ons tab of a stream properties dialog box, a node dialog box , or a model

nugget window. These notes are visible only when the Annotations tab is open, except that

stream annotations can also be shown as on-screen comments. For more information, see the

topic Ann otations on p . 86.

Comments

Comments take the form of text boxes in which you can enter any amount of text, and you can

add as many comments as you like . A comment can be freestanding (not attach ed to any stream

objects) , or it can be connected t o one or more nodes or m odel nuggets in the stream. Freestanding

comments are typica lly used to describe the overall purpose of the stream; connected comme nts

describe the node or nugget to which they are attached. Nodes and nuggets c an have more than

one comme nt attached , and the stream can have any number of freestanding comments.

Note: You can also show stream annotations as on-sc r een comments, though these cannot be

attache d to nodes or nuggets . For more informati on, see the topic Converting A nnotations to

Comments on p. 85.