1.2.1.8 Canvas Right-Click Menu

When you right-click on the Canvas, a context menu is displayed, which provides options to quickly perform tasks within the Canvas. Some of these options overlap with the options in the Canvas toolbar.

The following table describes these menu options:.

Menu Option Description

Configure

Opens the configurations dialog box for the selected processor

Open

On the process canvas, it allows a published processor to be opened. It will only be enabled when a published processor is selected. On the job canvas, it allows a process to be opened. It will only be enabled when a process task is selected.

Rename

Rename the selected process or job on the canvas

Group

Groups the selected processors

Ungroup

Un-groups the selected processors

Cut

Cuts the selected processors for pasting to a different place or into a new process

Copy

Copies the selected processor(s) for pasting to different place or into a new process

Paste

Pastes the selected processor(s)

Delete

Deletes the selected processor

Find Processor

Opens the search bar at the bottom on the Canvas to find processors within a Canvas

Invalid Processor Search

Assists in discovering problems where many processors exist on the canvas. This option is only available where one or more processors have errors on that canvas.

Attribute Search

Performs a search for the origin processor of an attribute

Clear

Clears the attribute search

Add Canvas Note

Adds a note to the Canvas

Make Processor

Makes the selected processor into a new processor

Publish Processor

Publishes the selected processor(s)

Remove Link to Reference Processor

Detaches an instance of a Reference Published Processor from its reference version. See Published Processors for details.

Externalize

Allows externalizing EDQ processors, jobs, snapshots, external tasks, or export of data stores by exposing the configuration settings such that they are overridden at runtime, by users of EDQ Server Console or by external applications that call EDQ using its Command Line Interface. For details on how to externalize jobs, see Externalizing Jobs

For more information on how to integrate EDQ with External Systems, see Fusion Middleware Integrating Enterprise Data Quality with External Systems.

Published Results View

Displays a list of any published results views in the process, with the ability to link to the relevant processors

Set Help Locations

This is intended for internal development use. It allows a processor to have additional help pages that are installed on the server. The path given is relative to where EDQ is installed on the application server.

Align Left

Aligns the selected processors to the left of the canvas

Align Center Vertical

Aligns the selected processors to the center of the Canvas, vertically

Align Right

Aligns the selected processors to the right of the Canvas

Space Vertical

Arranges the selected processors in such a way that it creates vertical space between them.

Align Top

Aligns the selected processors to the top of the Canvas.

Align Center Horizontal

Aligns the selected processors to the center of the Canvas, horizontally

Align Bottom

Aligns the selected processors to the bottom of the Canvas.

Space Horizontal

Arranges the selected processors in such a way that it creates horizontal space between them

Attach Help

Allows a zip file to be attached to the processor and included if the processor is published. It is attached with help the pages for a processor.For more information on published processors, see Published Processors

If a processor has help attached to it, the help can be accessed by the user by selecting the processor and pressing F1. Note that help files for published processors are not integrated with the standard OEDQ Online Help that is shipped with the product, so are not listed in its index and cannot be found by search.

Show results in new window

Shows the results that appear after running a processor, in a new window.