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Toolbars represent the most commonly performed activities in the DMC. Buttons and icons are active or inactive depending on the activity being performed. These include a general toolbar for operations like opening and saving files, a process and data flow toolbar for operations like running and deleting flows, a specialized process flow toolbar for adding objects to the workspace, and a reports toolbar for operations like displaying data in a spreadsheet.
The DMC General toolbar contains the following buttons:
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New Lets you create new flows, stored procedures, synonyms, specialized flows, or server connections, as well as configure adapters. |
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About Opens the About dialog box. |
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Full Screen Displays the workspace in full screen mode. |
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Refresh Refreshes the Explorer tree in the navigation pane. |
The general toolbar in the Data Flow and Process Flow tabs has six buttons that apply to both design modes:
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Flow Properties Displays the property tree for the flow. |
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Run Launches a drop-down menu for Submit, Run, Run with Options, and Impact Analysis. |
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Save As Saves the current procedure under a specified file name. |
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Prints the flow. |
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View Last Log Opens the last log for the flow in the workspace. |
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Arrange Items Rearranges the objects in the workspace. |
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Validate Validates the flow. |
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Delete Deletes the selected object in the flow. |
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Source Creates a source in the workspace. |
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Join Joins two objects in the workspace. |
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Select Creates a select object in the workspace. |
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Union Create a union object in the workspace. |
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Existing Target Adds an existing target in the workspace. |
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New Target Creates a new target in the workspace. |
In addition to the buttons on the general Data/Process Flow toolbar, a specific process flow toolbar contain icons that you can drag into the workspace, where they become objects in the process flow.
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Creates a Stored Procedure object in the workspace. |
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Creates a flow object in the workspace. |
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Creates an E-mail object in the workspace. |
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Creates a Schedule object in the workspace. |
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Creates a Parallel Group object in the workspace. |
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Creates a Wait object in the workspace. |
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Sets variables for the process flow. |
To see what these object look like in the workspace, see Process Flow Objects in the Workspace.
The Define Functions toolbar becomes active when you define new functions.It contains the following buttons:
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Save As Saves the function. |
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New Parameter Creates a new parameter for the function. |
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New Define Creates a new define for the function. |
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Delete Deletes the selected item. |
The Reports toolbar becomes active when you run a report. It contains the following buttons:
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Report Displays the report in spreadsheet format. |
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Refresh Reruns the report. |
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Next Displays the next report in the output. Note: This option it only available for output with multiple pages. |
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Copy as text Copies the selected report text to the clipboard. |
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Export to Excel Exports the report as an Excel spreadsheet. Note: This option is available for Alpha and Original output only. |
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Prints the report. |
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Save As Saves the report as a file. |
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