Editing Property Values

Properties that are grayed out in the property editor are read only and cannot be modified. A property value cannot be edited if any of these conditions exist:

• The property has a derived value. For example, a property indicating the total number of child nodes is derived by Oracle Data Relationship Management and cannot be edited.

• The user does not have appropriate security rights to edit the value.

• The value of the property has been inherited from an ancestor node, whose value has been locked.

To edit property values:

1. Select a property in the property grid.
2. Click the Value field for a property and make changes.

   Note:

   You can edit only properties that are not grayed out.

3. Optional: From Property, select an action from the Property menu:

   • Copy––Copy a property value.

   • Remove Value––Removes an overridden property value

   • Remove Duplicates––For a normal, defined property, removes any value equal to the default value of the node from its descendants. For an inheriting property, removes any value equal to the inherited value of the node from its descendants. For a read/write derived property, removes any value equal to the derived value of the node from its descendants.

   • Clear All Below––Clears the value on all descendant nodes which have overridden their inherited values and replaces the value with the default value from the inheritance rules

   • Lock––Prevents changes to the value in inheriting descendant nodes.

     Note:

     Only inheriting property values can be locked.

     If prior to applying the Lock, a descendant node inherited value was overridden, the Lock does not affect that node. To affect all descendants, use the Lock and Clear All Below option.

   • Lock and Clear All Below––Prevents changes to the value in inheriting descendant nodes, including any descendant nodes where the inherited value was overridden.

4. Take an action:

   • Click Save to save your changes.

   • Click Cancel to exit without saving changes.