The Hot List is the (currently empty) box, located in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen, below the Navigator. Placing items on the Hot List allows you to efficiently navigate and work with a subset of your items.

Drag Total>Cakes>Food-King from the Navigator into the Hot List area. Your display should now look like the one below.

Click on the different items in the Hot List and notice that as you do so, the Navigator selection and views are immediately updated to match your selection.

Right click in the Hot List area to call up the Hot List’s context menu. Notice that there are a full range of options to control how Hot List items are displayed, to import and export Hot Lists, and to save outputs for only Hot List items. Select Clear to clear the Hot List.

Now select Total>Cakes>Food-King on the Navigator, right click to bring up the Navigator’s context menu and select Add to Hot List. Notice that there is a full range of options to add items to the Hot List. Children, Parents and Siblings refer to one level down on the current branch, one level up on the current branch and the same level on the current branch, respectively. In the “Analysis” menu selection, Overrides refer to items with direct overrides (items with red icons) and Affected refers to items with indirect overrides (items with yellow icons). The other selections available in the “Analysis” menu selection are described in The Navigator Context Menu.

Experiment with adding and removing items from the Hot List until you are comfortable with its operation.

Clear the Hot List by selecting Clear on Hot List context menu. Select Total>Cakes>Food-King on the Navigator, invoke the Navigator’s context menu and select Add to Hot List>This Level. Your screen should now match the display below.