Components view

The components view shows a list of configuration components, sorted by category into groups such as Middleware, Peripheral drivers and others.

The view highlights configuration components based on their status.
Table 1. Component status
Status Color highlighting
Enabled Light gray.
Enabled/with warning Light gray with the alert symbol.
Enabled/with error Red with the error symbol.
Disabled Dark gray.
Figure 1. Components view
In the Components view, you can perform several actions.
Table 2. Components view actions
Option Description
Display configuration-component information Point the mouse cursor at the configuration component to display general configuration-component information.
Open the Settings Editor of the configuration component Left-click the configuration component to open its Settings Editor.
Add new configuration components Left-click the + button and select from the list to add a component. In the Select component dialog, you can filter the list to show only toolchain-project-relevant, or latest version components. You can also click the + buttons next to Middleware/Peripheral drivers/Other categories to add new components in them directly.
Filter configuration components by name Type a text string to filter configuration component names in the search bar.
Right-click the the configuration component to open a shortcut menu. Several options are available in the shortcut menu.
Table 3. Shortcut menu options
Option Description
Open Open the configuration component in the Settings Editor.
Open in another view Duplicates the configuration component in the Settings Editor.
Enable/Disable Enable/Disable the configuration component.
Edit comment Create/Edit custom notes for the configuration component.
Lock/Unlock editing of component instance Lock/Unlock the editing of the component instance.
Save to use case library Create a template from the configuration component.
Documentation Display the documentation of the configuration component, if available.
Remove Remove the component from configuration.
Note: If the component has any global settings, a dialog appears prompting you to confirm the removal. If the component doesn't have any global settings, the component is deleted after removing the last instance.
Migrate Migrate the component to a different component type or to a component with a newer driver version.
Move to Choose from available functional groups to move the configuration component to.
Copy to Choose from available functional groups to copy the configuration component to.