The External Package Relations component gives you a graphical tree overview of the current package and all of its directly or indirectly referrenced external packages. So it provides you the information about the relations between packages starting at the current package.
![]() | The picture on the left hand side shows a package (called "Business Example") that references three other external packages: "Participant Repository", "Application Respository" and "Process Repository". The external package "Process Repository" again references (the same) two external packages: "Participant Repository" and "Application Repository". The "Expand All" and "Collapse All" buttons on top of the tree can be used to show or hide the subtree. The External Package Relaltions can be hidden by clicking on the "Overview" tab with the right mouse button and selecting "Close". It can be shown again by selecting "Add External package relations" in the context menu of the "Overview" tab or the background of the "Special Area". |
The External Package relations background color can be changed through the extpkgrelations.properties file. (BackgroundColor = R=?,G=?,B=?)
As with all other components you are also able to change the content of the toolbar and the order of the toolbar buttons.