Component Ribbon
In the component ribbon (see the following figure) settings are made for the component.
A component ribbon is available only for the component opened in the active form. For this component, a tab is displayed with the ribbon tab label, in the following figure: Boiler (100 kW).
Click on this tab to open the ribbon. The following figure shows the opened ribbon of the component Electricity Tariff.
With Context related ribbon tab change, the ribbon of a component opens automatically together with the form of the component: when clicking on a component in the Project explorer, when double-clicking on a component in the scheme, or when clicking on the tab of the form if the form has already been previously opened on the work surface.
Groups of a Component Ribbon
The component ribbon includes the following groups:
Start
Use the Execute module application button to start the module selected in the Project explorer.
Information
In the Information group you can store the information about the Manufacturer, Type, and Data source of the component.
Forms
The split buttons in the Forms group are used to optionally add additional component parts in the Economic input data and Operational side conditions forms.
Under the 
Investment costs split button, you can add Fixed investment costs or an Investment cost function.
Similarly, you can add Fixed reinvestment costs or a Reinvestment cost function using the 
Reinvestment costs split button.
The split button 
Operating costs allows adding
With the split button 
Operating constraints, the Operational side conditions can be added, which are to be stored in the form of the same name of the component.
Tariff
The Tariff group allows adding additional costs and revenue items in tariff components. The group is therefore only active for tariff components.
Features
Clicking the 
Optimize structurally button transforms the component into a structural optimization component. The size of a structural optimization component is not predefined, but calculated in the structural optimization according to the objective function selected in the simulation ribbon.
Delete
The component can be deleted locally or completely.
In case of 
local deletion, only the selected copy of the component on the active scheme is deleted. The component remains in the Component Library and in other schemes if the component was used there.
A 
complete deletion, on the other hand, deletes the component from the entire project, including the Component Library and each scheme.
Refresh
You can 
update the component when a new version is available.
Export
To save the component to any location, use the 
Export component button. You can choose between e-cmp (TOP-Energy specific component format) and XML file extensions.
