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VDB Explorer



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Dimension Designer allows you to operate and focus on one VDB at a time. (see Virtual Database Summary ). The primary view of the VDB contents is provided by the VDB Explorer.

The VDB Explorer (shown below) is comprised of a toolbar and a tree view.

The toolbar consists of nine common actions:

The additional actions are shown in the following figure:


Tree View Layout Options

The tree view has three layout options available via the additional actions menu . They include: View Models by Type, View Web Services and View Contents.

The default view layout, View Models by Type, shown previously, organizes models into five model categories, Sources, Views, XML Schemas, Web Services and Extensions.

VIew Web Services, shown below, constains only Web Service components (i.e. Interfaces, Operations, etc.) independent of the parent model.

View Contents option shows the basic flat contents of the VDB.

If Show Model Imports is checked, the imports will be displayed directly under a model resource as shown below.


Selection-Based Action Menus

Selecting specific objects in the VDB Explorer provides a context from which the Designer presents a customized menu of available actions.

Selecting the VDB, for instance, results in a number of high-level options to manage VDB's, manage VDB content, perform Web Service operations (i.e preview WSDL & create Web Service WAR file) and provides quick access to other import views available in Dimension Designer.

Selecting any of the model type folders presents a customized set of available actions which are illustrated below.

Source Models folder menu:

View Models folder menu:

XML Schema Models folder menu:

Web Service Models folder menu:\

Extension Models folder menu:


Menu options for Models provide basic modeling capabilities, including specialized actions based on model type.

 


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