Displaying properties

When visualizing data objects, relationships, or extract events in the Data Visualizer perspective, object properties, relationship properties, extract event properties, and Graphical View properties can all be displayed in a Properties tab. The Properties tab shares the window used for the Relationship Filters, Object Filters, and Extract Hotspot Filter View tabs.

Object properties displayed include:

• DB type
• Driving table (true or false)
• DSN
• Excluded (true or false)
• Group ID
• In scope (true or false)
• Object ID
• Schema
• Table
• Unrelated (true or false).

Relationship properties displayed include:

• Association 0001
• Connection Type (RI or AR)
• Destination (expandable)
• Group ID
• ID
• Name
• Source (expandable).

Extract event properties displayed include:

• % of Rows Read
• Chase Keys Count
• Columns Count
• CPU Time (Seconds)
• Data read from
• Dependent
• DPSI
• Event Number
• Fetches
• Index Access Method
• Index Exact Match
• Index Partial Match
• Key Tree
• Object read from
• Parent
• Relationship ID
• Retrieval Code
• Rows Extracted
• Rows Read
• Rows Used
• SQL
• Timeron.

Graphical View properties displayed include:

• Current layout
• Limit Node Sizes (true or false)
• Line wrap nodes (true or false)
• Max chars before trimming
• Min chars before wrapping
• Root nodes
• Total nodes.

To display properties

1. To display properties for an object, relationship, or event, right-click the object node or relationship or event line in the Graphical View and select Properties. The Properties tab displays the properties of the selected object, relationship, or event. To view the properties for another object, relationship, or event, simply click on the desired item.
2. To display properties for the Graphical View of objects and relationships itself, right-click in an open area of the view and select Properties. The Properties tab displays the properties of the Graphical View.