Database Right-Click Menu
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Right-Click menus are context sensitive, so not all items will be available in all circumstances.
Table Menu
- Open in List - opens the selected table in the List Tab
- DataView - Opens a blank dataview tab for the selected table
- Details - Opens a details tab with summary field information for the table
- Show/Hide Fields - Toggles showing/hiding hidden fields
- Engineering - Table level field engineering:
- IntegerSequenceKey - Creates a continuous unique integer key on the table
- LongSequenceKey - Creates a continuous unique long key on the table
- DiscreteIntegerSequence - Creates a discrete integer sequence key on the table
- Auto Dashboard - Creates a (series of) dashboards containing basic profiles and analysis on the table's fields.
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- Protect - Locks a table so that it cannot be deleted
- Delete - Deletes the table
- Detach - Removes an injected table from the current project
Field Menu
Field context menu [right-click]
- Profile - Creates a basic field profile report
- Index Profile - Creates an index profile report
- Statistics - Creates a statistics report
- DataView - Creates a DataView of selected field
- Query - Adds a query element to a dataset
- Rename - renames any non-protected, or non-injected field.
- Properties - Opens the Entity Property Window for that field. Displays summary data for the field, as well as the JSON used to create it
- Edit - Edits a derived field's definition.
- Delete - Permanently deletes any non-protected or non-injected field.
- Protect - Locks a field so that it cannot be edited or deleted.
Extended context menu
These menu items depend on the field type and database structure
- Engineering - Derived: a short cut into the engineering capabilities
- Advanced:
- MakeContinuousKey - Make a continuous key field from the selected field
- Make Key Table - Make a key table from the selected key
- Aggregate - Create aggregates if there is an un-ambiguously related table
- Copy Up - Copy a field from the foreign to primary table if there is an un-ambiguously related table
- Copy Down - Copy a field from primary to foreign table if there is an un-ambiguously related table
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