Drag and drop

„drag and drop” is an easy to use and quick way for linking elements or objects in openLCA, for example for

? assigning authors (actors) to a process,
? references to a process,
? flows to a process,
? or flow properties to a flow.

Dropable fields are partly marked with an object icon on the left. To drag an object, click on it and hold the mouse button while dragging the object to the target destination. As you move over different „regions” of the user interface, a „no go” symbol (a circle that is striked through) appears indicating those areas where you cannot let the object drop; on other areas which expect the object to be dropped, the „no go” symbol disappears.

Evidently, the type of object that you drop needs to match the type of object the respective area can handle. The latter is usually indicated with the object icon. In the first example showed below, you can only drop flows, not actors, or processes. In the second one you can only drop actors.

In most cases you drag an object out of the navigation view into an editor field or table. Some other locations provide this as well.

For example, the search view also provides a drag source, as you can see below.