Navigation in the Schema Diagram

The following editing and navigation features work for all types of schema components:

• Move/reference components in the diagram using drag-and-drop actions.
• Select consecutive components on the diagram (components from the same level) using the Shift key. You can also make discontinuous selections in the schema diagram using the Ctrl (Meta on Mac OS) key. To deselect one of the components, use Ctrl Single-Click (Command Single-Click on OS X).
• Use the arrow keys to navigate the diagram vertically and horizontally.
• Use Home/End keys to jumpt to the first/last component from the same level. Use Ctrl Home (Command Home on OS X) key combination to go to the diagram root and Ctrl End (Command End on OS X) to go to the last child of the selected component.
• You can easily go back to a previously visited component while moving from left to right. The path will be preserved only if you use the left arrow key or right arrow key. For example, if the current selection is on the second attribute from an attribute group and you press the left arrow key to jump to the attribute group, when you press the right arrow key, then the selection will be moved to the second attribute.
• Go back and forward between components viewed or edited in the diagram by selecting them in the Outline view:
  • Back (go to previous schema component).
  • Forward (go to next schema component).
  • Go to Last Modification (go to last modified schema component).
• Copy, reference, or move global components, attributes, and identity constraints to a different position and from one schema to another using the Cut/Copy and Paste/Paste as Reference actions.
• Go to the definition of an element or attribute with the Show Definition action.
• You can expand and see the contents of the imports/includes/redefines in the diagram. In order to edit components from other schemas the schema for each component will be opened as a separate file in Oxygen XML Developer plugin.
  Tip: If an XML Schema referenced by the current opened schema was modified on disk, the change will be detected and you will be asked to refresh the current schema contents.

• Recursive references are marked with a recurse symbol: . Click this symbol to navigate between the element declaration and its reference.