Once expanded, each connection (whether active or not) displays
the entities and the instances already present in your workspace.
The
Pacbase explorer view displays:
- At the root level, your connections, represented by the
icon
if the connection is active, or by the
icon if it is inactive.
It displays the connection name you chose when you created the connection,
followed, if the connection is active, by the connection Database, session,
current library, and [A] (for 'Active') . If the connection
is not active, only the connection name is displayed.
- If the connection is active, you can expand it Then, you will see folders,
represented by the
icon. Each folder corresponds to an entity. The
entity names are followed by the number of instances already imported.
- Expand the entities to see the instances, if any, already imported:
- Data Elements
,
- Data Structures
,
- Table Data Structures
,
- Programs
or Macro Structures
,
If the instance is defined in the current library, its name is preceded
by a ≺ symbol. if you are not granted authorization to update the instance,
its background is grayed.