You can show or hide parts of a program in the outline
view according to the program structure.
About this task
When opened on a file, the outline view provides the following
toolbar buttons for filtering the contents of the view. These buttons
toggle the contents of the view. Click a button to activate the filter.
Click it again to restore the outline view to its original state.
- Sorts sibling nodes in the outline in ascending order by name.
- Causes the outline view to show only the four divisions (identification
division, environment division, data division, and procedure division)
in programs. The content of the divisions is not shown.
- Hides nested programs in the outline view.
- Shows the data division contents in the outline view. The other
divisions in the program are hidden.
- Shows the contents of the file section of the data division.
- Hides subordinate data items in the outline so that only level
1 data items are shown.
- Shows the contents of the procedure division in the outline, including
sections and paragraphs in the procedure division. The identification
division, data division, and environment division are hidden.
- Shows a list of functions to perform on the Outline view data.
- Expand outline
- Select + Expand Outline to expand the
selected program section.
- Collapse outline
- Select - Collapse Outline to collapse the
selected program section.
- Filters
- Select Filter to define a search argument
to limit the program data items shown based on the name value that
is specified as the search argument. You can use a wildcard to narrow
or broaden the search scope.
- Link with editors
- If enabled, when you place the cursor on a line in the editor,
the Outline view expands to display the corresponding node.