Panels

As well as the flow editor, which displays and allows editing of the flow of nodes and links, Common Canvas has five additional optional panels:

• Toolbar panel
• Left-flyout panel
• Right-flyout panel
• Top panel
• Bottom panel

The toolbar panel always displays the main toolbar but the others can be used by the application to display any additional content to the user such as a palette of nodes, properties for a node, logs, data previews or other ancillary information.

Traditionally, the left-flyout is used to display a palette of nodes and the right-flyout is used to display properties of the currently selected node.

The application can, optionally, use Common Properties to display the controls for the properties of a node.

Customizing content and display

The panels can be displayed or hidden and their contents and layout customized using customization options for panels.