Data Source Context Menu

Several functions are available from the Data Source Context Menu. You can open a data source to edit its definition, test it, review its properties.

From the data source list in the binding, select any data source and right-click to display the Data Source Context Menu. The menu includes these options:
Open
Opens the data source definition for editing. See Using the Data Source Configuration Wizard.
Show Metadata View
Displays the following panel:
metadata display for a data source
Table names for the data source are displayed.
Query Tool
Displays a listing of tables for the data source. You can expand the table names to display column names. For additional information, refer to the Optim Connect User Guide and Reference.
query tool display
Test
Validates the data source definition and its data. In the following example, the user selected the OPTIM_ITEMS table from the data source and clicked "Test". This panel displays:
In this example, the text function retrieved ten of the table rows and all of the table columns.


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