Attributes of all modelelements

The following list of attributes are common attributes of all modelelements. This means of the case, of chains and of steps.

| Name: Specifies the name of the modelelement. The name must start with a letter. The following characters should be letters and numerals. The name of the element have to be case-wide unique.
| Type: Specifies the type of the modelelement: Case, Chain, Step or Transition. This attribute is not editable.
| Bounds: Specifies the dimensions of the modelelement. This attribute cannot be changed in the Inspector, only in the Workspace Only the location of the modelelement in the drawing is saved to the database. The width and height are not saved. The default values are width=35 and height=35. The Case has no Bounds, because it has never a graphical element in the drawing.
| Hyperlink: Specifies a hyperlink to an external file, containing a description for the modelelement. When you click on the element, MiningMart tries to open the file. If the file is located in the local filesystem, then the description-file is displayed in the internal Annotation-Window. Otherwise an external program is called (e.g. a web-browser).
| Color: Specifies the color to fill the graphical figure of the element. Clicking on the field to edit the attribute, a special dialog opens to choose the color. This attribute is not saved to database. You can only mark an element in your current session.