Chapter 5 Customizing the PDM Environment

View display preferences

To set display preferences for views, select Tools→Display Preferences, and select the View sub-category in the left-hand Category pane.

Preference Description
Columns Displays the columns in the view. You can further specify the display of columns as follows:

  • All columns - All columns in the view. Multiple column selection is represented by an asterisk (*).
  • Limit – Displays columns up to the limit defined.
Tables Displays the tables in the view.
Indexes For those DBMS that support query tables, displays the indexes in the views of type materialized view, summary table or snapshot.
Owner Displays the names of view owners.
Stereotype Displays the stereotypes of views.
Comment Displays the comments associated with views. When selected, all other check boxes except for Stereotype are deselected.

View column display preferences

The following display preferences are available for view columns:

Preference Description
Name Displays the view column names.
Expression Displays the SQL expressions for view columns.
Data types Displays the data type for view columns.
Index indicator For those DBMS that support query tables, displays the indicator next to indexed columns.

 

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