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soapUI Pro Outline Editor

The soapUI Pro Outline Editor is available for all request and response messages and shows a tree view of the current message content. The left column of the editor shows the tree structure and the center column shows editable node values. Grayed node-values are not editable due to unavailability or schema restrictions. Node values in the center column are editable by selecting or editing as usual. The right column shows the schema type for the corresponding node if available. This column can be hidden with the toggle button in the toolbar.

If the underlying schema definition for a specific node has documentation annotations, these will be displayed in the tooltip as shown in the screen-shot below.

Structured View of Web Service messages in soapUI Pro

The toolbar has the following actions (left to right):

  • Collapses all child nodes if possible (ALT+SHIFT+C)
  • Expands all child nodes if possible (ALT+SHIFT+E)
  • Collapses all sibling nodes if possible (ALT+CTRL+C)
  • Expands all sibling nodes if possible (ALT+CTRL+E)
  • Moves down to the next sibling node, skipping any child nodes (ALT+DOWN)
  • Moves up one sibling, skipping any intermediate child nodes (ALT+UP)
  • Moves to the current nodes parent node (ALT+LEFT)
  • Moves to and expands the current nodes first child node if available (ALT+RIGHT)
  • Toggle Type-Column
  • Help - displays this page

The following additional keyboard commands are available when the Outline-Table has focus:

  • DOWN - moves down one row and expands new row if possible
  • UP - moves up one row
  • ALT+C - collapses current node if possible (i.e. hides all child nodes)
  • ALT+E - expands current node if possible (i.e. shows all child nodes)

A number of right-button actions are available for creation of XPath assertions and Property-Transfers/Expansion when editing Mock Response and Test Request steps.


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