Selecting Items in Visual Navigator

When you select a particular item in the model within the viewer, the related item is highlighted in the Tree View pane, and the item information pane displays details about the selected item.

If the item is found, the item becomes the new focus item. The header, item information pane, and tree pane update with the new item's information and position in the hierarchy.

Note: If eB finds more than one eB item, this message appears and the first matching item is shown as the focus object.

Note: If eB cannot locate the selected item, this message appears:

When you select an item in the Tree View pane, the viewer pane highlights and zooms in on the selected item in the model, and the item information pane displays details about the selected item.

Depending on the object type of the item selected in the Tree View pane, navigation is handled based on the tagged item, document, i-model file, or other object.

Tagged items

The web page instructs the user to search for the selected object.

If...	Then...
a match is found	the object is selected and zoomed into the viewer.
no match is found	an error message appears.
more than one object is found	an error message appears and the first matching object is selected.

Note: Regardless of whether the object is found in the i-model, it becomes the new focus object. The header, item information pane, and tree panes are updated with the new item's information and position in the hierarchy.

Documents

If the selected document has only one i-model, the new i-model is loaded for display in Visual Navigator.

If selected document ...	Then ...
has only one i-model	the new model is loaded for display in Visual Navigator.
has more than one i-model	the intermediate i-model selection page appears. The new i-model is loaded once a selection has been made.
is in the context of a tagged item (e.g., a document link from the related items display for a particular tag)	the new page is zoomed into the tagged view when it load the new i-model.

i-model files

The new i-model is loaded for display in Visual Navigator. If the file is selected in the context of a tagged item, the new page is zoomed into the tagged item when it loads the new i-model.

All Other Objects

The Web page opens a new tab in the browser to display the object in the default eB Web view.