Entering Object Comments
Using the comment tab
To enter or modify a comment associated with an object:
1. Right-click the object and select Properties.
2. In the properties dialog box of the object, select the Comment tab.
The comment entered will automatically appear in the generated document.
In this tab, icons give access to text editing functions (cut, copy, paste and spell check, etc.).
To insert a line break:
Press "Enter".
When several types of text are available for the same object, a drop-down list allows you to select the type of text entered.
To comment a diagram and the object it describes, select
Diagram > Properties and
Diagram > Described Object > Properties.
Using the comment window
You can also modify or enter object comments in the desktop comment window.
Displaying the comment window is useful when you want to successively enter the comments of several objects.
When you click an object in a navigation window, in a diagram, or in a query result dialog box, the comment of the selected (active) object appears in this window. You can therefore easily modify the comment of the object then pass to that of another object.
To show object comments in the MEGA Web Front-End desktop:
Select
View > Edit Windows > Comment.
The comment window appears. It displays the comment of the active object.
Checking spelling in texts
The
Spelling button
starts the spelling checker.
By default, the dictionary of the current language is used. Dictionaries in French, English and Italian (format .tlx) are provided in the "System" folder. You can customize dictionaries using the "userdic.tlx" file.
Text formatting
The comment dialog box toolbar allows you to access text edit functions (bold, italic, underline, strikeout, align, bullets, indents, font color, etc.).
Bullets and indents cannot be customized. It is not possible to insert tables or page breaks or paste images. For a list of restrictions, see
"Authorized formats".
An RTF comment is not designed to store the integrality of Word documents. To do this, external references should be used. For more details, see
"Using External References".
The format applied will be used in generated reports (MS Word) and Web sites.
Default font in generated reports (MS Word)
You can enter your comment text using the "Default font" or another font. In reports (MS Word) generated from this comment, the font used is that defined by default in the document model.
Authorized formats
Only those formats proposed in the comment dialog box toolbar are permitted:
• Bulleted lists
(Bulleted lists cannot however be customized)
• Font, size
(By default, text can be entered without associating a specific font)
• Character formats: bold, italic, strikethrough
(Text color is not saved)
• Paragraph formats: aligned, indented
(Indent value cannot be customized)
Prohibited formats
• Text color
• Tables
(There is no button enabling table creation. Tables pasted in the comment are not taken into account)
• Paragraph formats (page break, header, footer, margin, portrait/landscape orientation)
• Links
Editing texts in a diagram
In MEGA Windows Front-End, to avoid opening and closing the properties dialog box for each object in a diagram:
Select
View >
Edit Windows >
Comment.
The Comment window appears at the bottom of the workspace.
It presents the comment of the selected object.
Each time you click on an object in your diagram, this dialog box will display the comment for the object and you can modify it.
Inserting object names in comments
MEGA allows you to insert object names in comments using drag-and-drop. You can, for example, select an object in the explorer to place it in a comment. This enables:
• Automatic creation of links in generated Web sites.
• Automatic refresh of object names in comments. If you insert the object names as a field, you will not need to update them manually in the comment.
To view the identifier of inserted objects:
Click
Hide/show fields 
.
To delete a field:
1. Click
Hide/show fields to view the field.
2. Select the corresponding field code.
3. Delete the selected code.
