# Bundled Connector

Purpose: The Bundled Connector allows you to represent, in summary form on the Interface level, any sector-to-sector connectors which exist in your model. Like the other mapping building blocks, the Bundled Connector facilitates a "top-down" approach to model construction, and provides navigational capabilities.

Selection and Placement:

Method 1:

- Select the Bundled Connector by clicking once on the icon in the Building Block palette.

- Move the mouse to the center of a Process Frame.

- Click-and-hold. Drag the Bundled Connector into another Process Frame (the Process Frame border will turn gray on contact). Release the click.

Method 2:

When "Link High-Level Map to Model" is checked in the Interface Prefs dialog:

- Drag a connector between variables in two Sector Frames on the Map/Model level. A Bundled Connector will be created automatically.

Notes:

To bend a connector, depress the shift key as you drag the connector. Each time you depress the shift key you will get a ninety degree bend.

On the Interface level, you can have a maximum of one Bundled Connector from Process Frame A to Process Frame B, and a maximum of one Bundled Connector from Process Frame B to Process Frame A.

When "Link High-Level Map to Model" box is checked in the Interface Prefs dialog, the software will enforce a one-to-one correspondence between sector-to-sector connectors, and process-to-process Bundled Connectors. At run time, Bundled Connectors will automatically be created if they are needed. If connectors are needed on the Map/Model level, an alert will list your options.

Surface Operations: Figure 4-8 details surface operations which may be performed on a Bundled Connector.

Figure 4-8 Bundled Connector Surface Operations

Dialog Operations: When you open a Bundled Connector, you'll enter its associated dialog. As shown in Figure 4-9, the Bundled Connector lists sector-to-sector connectors on the Map/Model level, and provides a mechanism for navigating to the entities to which the connectors are attached.

Figure 4-9 The Bundled Connector Dialog