Note
- Versioning is now available for updating a project's symbol styles programmatically.
- Updating symbol styles in older projects works with the 18.2 version and later and is not compatible in the 18.0 and 18.1 versions.
- Updating symbol styles will overwrite the existing styles. If you have manually made changes or added new features to the existing styles, those values will not be retained.
Cameo Concept Modeler diagrams are intended to be as non-technical as possible for subject matter experts. However, symbol styles may sometimes expose technical details that are not appropriate for that kind of audience. Concept Modeler, therefore, offers to tweak the symbol styles called Default and Defined Elsewhere, which you can update the symbol styles, defer updating the styles, or make Concept Modeler stop asking you about updating them.
The Ask to update outdated symbol styles option, which prompts you to update symbol styles when styles are not updated, is set to True by default. However, if you set it to False, the message dialog will not be shown. In the following message dialog, if you select Yes, Concept Modeler will update your styles. If you select No, the prompt will continue to appear next time when loading an older Concept Modeling project with an older set of symbol styles.
The message dialog when loading an older Concept Modeling project with an older set of symbol styles.
To enable/disable the Ask to update outdated symbol styles option
- On the main menu, click Options then Project.
- In the Project Options window, click on General then Concept Modeling.
- In that window, find the Ask to update outdated symbol styles field and check the box to set it true.
- Click OK.
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