Navigation:  How-To > Conjoin Multiple Elements

Sometimes you may need to conjoin multiple elements into one (so they can be easily moved together).  ForeUI provides two approaches to achieve this: grouping and embedding.

Grouping

Grouping elements is very easy, just select them together and click the button in the tools panel, then the elements will be conjoined into a single Group element.

 

The member elements within the group can be reviewed in the outline view.  The member elements are displayed in light blue color:

You can ungroup the group by clicking the button after selecting the group:

After ungrouping, the Group element is removed and the two member elements are restored.

Embedding

Some elements can work as containers and they allow you to embed other elements into them.  Actually the Group element is a special type of container: all group members are "embedded" into the group.

These elements can be used as containers, and they can embed each other and build a nested structure.

If you embed element A into B, then embed B into C, you will get a nested structure.

Remarks: The elements above (except Group) will auto create a group to wrap its embedded elements.

Some containers have the ability to show/hide part of its embedded elements, such as: