Dimension Designer provides cheat sheets to guide you through some of its modeling processes. Each cheat sheet is designed to help you complete some task, and it lists the sequence of steps required to help you achieve that goal. As you progress from one step to the next, the cheat sheet will automatically launch the required tools for you. If there is a manual step in the process, the step will tell you to perform the task and click a button in the cheat sheet to move on to the next step. Also, relevant help information to guide you through a task is retrieved in a single click so that lengthy documentation searches will no longer be required.
There are two ways that cheat sheets can be accessed, on the Welcome page or launched from the Web Service Advisor view.
When Dimension is first started, the Welcome page is displayed, on this page select
The cheat sheet opens as a view. At any time, only one cheat sheet is open and active. When you launch a cheat sheet, any opened cheat sheet is closed before the new one is opened. The completion status of closed cheat sheet is saved.
The cheat sheet has a toolbar at the top right edge. These icons appear in the toolbar:
Each cheat sheet has a list of steps and it always begins with an Introduction step. When you launch a fresh cheat sheet, the Introduction step is expanded so that you can read a brief description of the cheat sheet. To start working with the cheat sheet, click Click to Begin in that step. The next step is expanded and highlighted. You should also see one or more actions buttons, such as Click to Perform
in the highlighted step. You can now begin working through the tasks using the cheat sheet. At any time, the only highlighted step in the cheat sheet is the current step.
Any time after starting a cheat sheet, you can restart from the first step by clicking Click to Restart in the Introduction step. If you have already created some artifacts, you will have to manually clean up the workspace before restarting the cheat sheet.
In the current step, when you click Click to Perform , a tool (which can be a wizard), will be launched and you will be required to work with that tool. When you finish working with that tool, the next step is automatically highlighted and it becomes the current step. When the current step is a manual task, you will need to perform the work and click Click to Complete
to move to the next step. A check mark
appears in the left margin of each completed step.
To get step-by-step instructions for that step, click the help link in the step before you click Click to Perform
, and the step-by-step instructions on how to work with that tool will be displayed in the Help window.
If a current step has a Click to Skip option , then it is an optional step. You must click Click to Skip
to skip the current step, when you do, the step will have the skip mark
in the left margin. If the task does not present Click to Skip, you must perform that step and you cannot skip it.
You can redo any step that you may have completed or skipped in the current cheat sheet. To redo the step, expand the step by clicking its expand icon and then clicking Click to Redo
. After redoing a step, the cheat sheet will continue from the redo step.
When you finish the last step in a cheat sheet, it automatically restarts. You can also close the active cheat sheet by clicking the close icon (see below) in the cheat sheet's toolbar. The active cheat sheet saves its completion status when it is closed so that you can continue where you left off at a later time.
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