How do I select values from a list?

One of the ways that the Oracle Empirica Signal application facilitates your work is to provide lists of accepted values for many functions. These values appear in alphanumeric order in a dialog box and often include an All option as well as individual values.

Selecting a single value

If the dialog box includes a list of available values but no list of selected values, you can select only one value.

• Click a value to highlight it and then click OK.

Note:

When you highlight a single value, the full value is displayed as pop-up text. This enables you to see the full value in case the displayed value is cut off because of its length.

Selecting multiple values

1. To select values from a list, click Select Available Values
2. To select values, you highlight and move them as follows:
   • If the dialog box includes a list of available values and a list of selected values, you can select multiple values (up to 1,000 values).
   • To highlight a value, click it.
   • To highlight multiple non-contiguous values, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking each value.
   • To highlight multiple contiguous values, click a value, hold down the Shift key, and click another value. Values between and including those values are highlighted.
   • To remove highlighting from a value, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking the selected value.
   • To move values back and forth between the list of all values and the list of selected values, you can double-click a highlighted value or use the arrow keys as follows:

     Button	Use To
     	Move highlighted values from the list of all values to the list of selected values.
     	Move all values from the list of all values to the list of selected values.
     	Move highlighted values from the list of selected values to the list of available values.
     	Move all values from the list of selected values to the list of available values.

     If up and down arrows are available for the list of selected values, you can use them to order the selected values. For example, when specifying breakdown details in a report definition, you can order the selected values as you want them to appear in the report.

3. When you are satisfied with the selected values, click OK.

   Note:

   In some contexts, you can click Save As List to create a saved list of values for future use.

Filtering available values

You can filter the available values if the Show Filter Options link appears.

1. Click Show Filter Options.
2. In the Filter field, type a value on which to filter the available values.
3. Specify filtering options:
   • Case-sensitive —If checked, the application lists only available values exactly matching the case (upper, lower, or mixed) of your entry in the Filter field.
   • Show values —From the drop-down list, select Starting with Filter to list available values that start with your entry in the Filter field. Select Containing Filter to include any values containing the specified filter in any position. Select Ending Filter to list values that end with the entry in the Filter field.

   If there are more than 100 possible values in total (regardless of filter options), the following additional options are available:

   • Minimum filter length —Select the minimum number of characters you must enter in the Filter field before any available values will be listed. (0 indicates no minimum.)
   • Maximum values to show —Select the maximum number of available values to be listed. If the maximum number is n, the first n matching values found in the list appear. Note that as you move values to the Selected Values list, more values appear in the Available Values list.

   A message informs you if any values have been filtered out of the Available Values list by the Maximum values to show field.

Note:

If network performance is not fast, avoid using No Limit. This can be slow when used with Generic_Name, for example, since there are thousands of values.