2.1 About the Database Actions User Interface

This section describes the Database Actions user interface.

The Database Actions user interface has three components:

• The Header at the top

• The page body, whose content varies depending on which page you are viewing

• The Status Bar at the bottom

Header

The header contains the Selector icon, the help icon, and the user drop-down list.

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• Selector Icon

  Click the Selector iconto see the main navigation menu slide into view. Click Oracle Database Actions in the header to go to the Launchpad page.

• Help Icon

  Click the help icon to open the contextual or online help for the page you are viewing.

• User Drop-Down List

  The user drop-down list shows the database user you are signed in as, and provides the following items when you open it:

  • Preferences

    The options are:

    Region

    • Language: Select one of the following languages for the user interface: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Chinese
    • Timezone: Select UTC or Local time zone from the drop-down list.

    Code Editor

    Provides global settings that apply to the code editor, such as theme, indentation, font family and line numbers.

    Worksheet

    • SQL History: Controls whether the history of commands executed in the code editor is enabled in the browser or not.

  • Log: Opens a dialog that shows the list of HTTP calls made during your session.

  • About: Opens a dialog providing version information for the database and other components as well as copyright and licensing information.

  • Sign Out: Signs you out of your database session.

Status Bar

The status bar contains icons that link to log files. The three icons (Errors, Warnings, Processes) are filters that have been applied to the log file.

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Errors, Warnings: Displays an Errors or Warnings dialog, which lists log entries from unsuccessful REST calls or from any other problem in the application.

Processes: Displays a Processes dialog, which logs REST calls that are either finished or ongoing.

Log notification link: Displays a Log dialog, containing log entries of the following types: Errors, Warnings, Processes, SQL History and SQL Result.