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: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.
- 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.