Managing bricks¶

In the Bricks area you can create and manage bricks. It initially provides an overview of all currently available bricks:

Figure: Overview of all bricks

To view details about a brick, select the corresponding brick and click Edit (Bearbeiten).

After that, all details of the selected brick are displayed:

Figure: Details of a selected brick.

Creating a new brick¶

To create a new brick, proceed as follows:

1. In the lower area click New brick (Neuer Brick).
2. Enter a title and select the brick details. Fill in all mandatory fields marked with an asterisk.
3. To assign directives to the brick, select the corresponding element in the Multimedia objects (Multimedia-Objekte) section on the right and add it either by double-clicking it or by clicking New directive (Neue Direktive).
4. To assign a package to a directive, select the corresponding target element in the list of already assigned directives, select the package to be assigned on the right and add it either by double-clicking or by clicking Add to directive (Zur Direktive).
5. Click Save brick (Brick speichern).

The brick is created and then displayed in the list of available bricks.

Duplicating a brick¶

To duplicate a brick, proceed as follows:

1. In the list of available bricks select the brick to be duplicated.
2. Click Duplicate (Duplizieren).

3. Enter the name/title under which the duplicated brick should be saved.

   Notice

   If necessary, you can reuse the name of an existing brick.

4. Confirm by clicking Apply (Übernehmen).

The selected brick is duplicated. All properties and components of the original brick are applied. Only the status of a duplicated brick is initially always set to "deactivated (deaktiviert)", regardless of the status of the original brick.

Editing a brick¶

To edit a brick, proceed as follows:

1. In the list of available bricks select the brick to be edited.
2. Click Edit (Bearbeiten).
3. Edit the brick details.
4. To assign directives to the brick, select the appropriate element in the Multimedia objects (Multimedia-Objekte) area on the right and either double-click it or click New directive (Neue Direktive) to add it.
5. To assign a package to a directive, select the corresponding target element in the list of already assigned directives, select the package to be assigned on the right and add it either by double-clicking it or by clicking Add to directive (Zur Direktive).
6. To delete a directive, select the element to be deleted in the list of assigned directives and click Delete directive (Direktive löschen).
7. Save the changes by clicking Save brick (Brick Speichern).

The changes are saved.

Creating a new version of a brick¶

To create a new version of a brick, proceed as follows:

1. Repeat steps 1-6 mentioned in Editing a brick.
2. To save the changes in a new version of the brick, click New version (Neue Version).

The new version of the brick is saved.

Changing the version of a brick to be used by the system¶

To change the version of a brick to be used by the system, proceed as follows:

1. In the list of available bricks, click the version number of the corresponding brick displayed in the Version column.

   All available versions of the selected brick are listed.

2. Select the version to be used.

3. Confirm the following dialog with Yes (Ja).

The system uses the selected brick version.

Deleting a brick¶

To delete a brick, proceed as follows:

1. Select the brick to be deleted.
2. Click Delete (Löschen).
3. Confirm the following dialog with Yes (Ja).

The brick is deleted.