Profile Property Scopes

Using scopes in your design lets you control the visibility of the property settings for the current profile on the Create Design Intent Form and Edit Design Intent Form. This means schematic and layout designers working together on a design can use scopes to filter the profile properties to focus on only those properties in which they are interested.

If no scope is defined for a profile, all properties are displayed. When a scope is created, a combo box appears alongside the Profile field on the Create Design Intent and Edit Design Intent forms. The combo box lists the new scopes created for the profile. The selected scope determines the properties that are visible for that profile.

A profile may have multiple scopes, each of which can be associated with a selection of the available profile properties. Similarly, a property can be associated with multiple scopes. Although a design intent might have multiple profiles to select from and each profile have multiple scopes defined, only a single profile and a single scope can be selected for the current design intent. Those properties without a scope are displayed regardless of the scope selected because these properties are considered to belong to all the scopes on the profile.

Related Topics

Create Design Intent Form

Edit Design Intent Form

Defining Scopes for Profile Properties