This view enables you to import Pacbase instances into your workspace,
to edit these entity instances and to export them to PDP editor for updates.
Connection repository
The
Pacbase Explorer view
is part of the
Pacbase Explorer perspective. In this
view, you create connections to Pacbase databases so as to import entity instances
from Pacbase Repository to your workspace. The entity instances are listed
in a tree-structure. You need to expand a connection repository to see the
list of instances already imported into your workspace, they are sorted by
entity types as in the following picture:
The structure of the tree is the
following one:
- On the first branch of the tree, you find the connection repositories.
The connection repositories are representing Pacbase databases. If the connection
repository is open, its name is preceded by the
icon. If the connection
is closed, its name is preceded by the
icon.
- On the second branch of the tree, you find entity folders.
- On the third branch of the tree, in the entity folders, you find the instances
already imported. The number of imported instances is displayed next to the
name of the entity repository, on the second branch of the tree.
Contextual menu
From the contextual menu of the Pacbase
Explorer view, you can perform a number of operations on the database
connections and on the Pacbase entities:
- New connection
- This menu opens a wizard that help you specify a new connection. The connection
is created and is active once you have completed the wizard. It is saved empty.
- Open PDP editor
- If an instance is currently selected, this menu opens the selected instance
in an editor on a read-only mode.
- Fetch from Repository
- This menu enables you to import instances from Pacbase Repository.
- Save
- This menu only applies to an active connection. It saves the connection
parameters and contents.
- Remove
- If a connection is currently selected, this menu removes the connection
from the view.
- If an entity is currently selected, this command graphically removes all
the instances displayed in the selected entity branch. These instances will
actually be locally removed only after the connection is saved.
- If an instance is currently selected, this menu graphically removes this
instance. This instance will actually be locally removed only after the connection
is saved.
- Reference
- You can search for an instance's super references,
i.e the instances in which it is called, or its sub-references,
i.e. the instances it calls. Selecting one of these choices makes you switch
to the References view, where the search results are
displayed.
-
- This menu enables you to open an instance or collection of instances in
PDP editor in the Design perspective where you will be able to modify them.
- Refresh
- This menu enables you to refresh the display after updates.
- Properties
- Opens the properties view in a tab. This view displays the property names
and values for a selected item. You find with the standard Advanced choice,
the Overview choice that allows you to have a vision
of the selected entity definition with the common part and the specific part
of the definition.