C.8 Window Menu

Table C-8 Options: Window Menu

Option

Description

Window > New Window

Opens a new instance of the application, making it easier to copy and paste between certain elements. You need to synchronize changes between the instances.

Window > New Editor

Launches a new Designer editor.

Window > Open Perceptive > Other

Toggles among perspectives: Debug, Designer (default), exteNd and Resource.

Window > Show View > Dataflow

Controls the flow of data between objects. See +_ and Dataflow Mode in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Navigator

Displays the Navigator view. See Section 4.6, The Navigator View.

Window > Show View > Outline

Provides an outline view of the active editor (Modeler, XML Editor, or a text editor).

Window > Show View > Policy Set

Displays the Policy Set view. When you select a driver in the Modeler, this view displays the driver's policies. See Section 4.7, Policy Set View.

Window > Show View > Project

Displays the main view for manipulating your project. See Creating a Project in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Project Checker

Checks Designer objects for any problems that might cause the deployment of a project into the Identity Vault to fail. It does not check the current objects in the Identity Vault. See Checking Your Projects in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Provisioning View

Displays entities, lists, and organizational charts; used in workflow-based provisioning.

Window > Show View > Search Results

Displays the Search Results view. See also Section 4.9, The Search Results View.

Window > Show View > Tasks

Enables you to add your own tasks and notes as you do your work. You can assign them a priority; mark them as completed; or delete, sort, or filter them.

Window > Show View > Trace

Displays internal errors and messages, so that you can find out why something isn’t working as expected. Use this feature to provide information for Novell Support, engineers, or other consulting resources. See Trace in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Version Control

Enables you to track revisions of your project and share them with team members. Also enables you to track objects and files inside of your project.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Bookmarks

Enables you to see bookmarks that you have set in your text editors.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Console

Displays the Console view.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Internal Web Browser

Enables you to immediately access the Eclipse Web site, or otherwise access the Internet.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Navigator

Displays the Navigator view. See Section 4.6, The Navigator View.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Outline

Displays the Outline view.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Progress

Displays the Progress view.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Problems

Displays the Problems view, with errors and warnings used for troubleshooting.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Project Explorer

Displays the project components.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Properties

Enables you to view and edit settings on the selected object.

Window > Show View > Other > General > Tasks

Enables you to list, prioritize, and track tasks

Window > Show View > Other > Designer for Identity Manager > Dataflow

Controls the flow of data between objects. See The Dataflow View and Dataflow Mode in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > Designer for Identity Manager > eDirectory Browser

Opens an eDirectory Browser window from which you can specify the directory you want to browse. See Tool-Based Method in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > Designer for Identity Manager > Policy Set

Displays all policies contained in the selected policy set. See Section 4.7, Policy Set View.

Window > Show View > Other > Designer for Identity Manager > Project

Displays the main view for manipulating your project. See Creating a Project in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > Designer for Identity Manager > Project Checker

Checks Designer objects for any problems that might cause the deployment of a project into the Identity Vault to fail. It does not check the current objects in the Identity Vault. See Checking Your Projects in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > Designer for Identity Manager > Search Results

Displays the Search Results view. See Section 4.9, The Search Results View.

Window > Show View > Other > Designer for Identity Manager > Trace

Displays internal errors and messages, so that you can find out why something isn’t working as expected. Use this feature to provide information for Novell Support, engineers, or other consulting resources. See Trace in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > Designer for Identity Manager > Version Control

Enables you to track revisions of your project and share them with team members. Also enables you to track objects and files inside of your project.

Window > Show View > Other > exteNd > Registry Manager

Launches the Registry Manager view.

Window > Show View > Other > Help > Help

Launches context-sensitive help in the Help view. Help topics depend on which part of the Modeler or Designer is active.

Window > Show View > Other > PDE Runtime > Error Log

Used for troubleshooting. See Viewing the Error Log in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > PDE Runtime > Plug-in Registry

Displays the plug-in registry. Enables you to see which plug-ins are registered or running. See Checking Loaded Plug-Ins in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > Provisioning

Enables you to view and configure entities, lists, and organizational charts. See “Configuring the Directory Abstraction Layer” in the Identity Manager User Application: Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > Provisioning > Data Item Mapping

Specifies how object attributes are mapped. See Mapping Identity Vault to an LDAP Schema in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Show View > Other > Provisioning > E-Mail Notification

Displays an e-mail notification map.

Window > Show View > Other > Provisioning > Provisioning

Displays entities, lists, and organizational charts used in workflow-based provisioning.

Window > Show View > Other > XML > XPath Navigator

Supports context-sensitive editing of XPath expressions. Automatically attaches to the currently selected XML editor.

Window > Customize Perspective

Configures the layout of a perspective. Controls menus (New, Open Perspective, and Show View) and action sets that show up on the tool bar. See Section 4.2, Managing Perspectives.

Window > Customize Perspective > Shortcuts

Lists the plug-in shortcuts that you can add as cascade submenus on the current perspective.

Window > Customize Perspective > Shortcuts > Designer Document Generation

Enables addition of a .docgen shortcut to create a new document generation style.

Window > Customize Perspective > Shortcuts > General

Enables selection of shortcuts to create a new file, folder, or empty untitled text file resources.

Window > Customize Perspective > Shortcuts > Novell Identity Manager

Enables the addition of the Identity Manager Project shortcut to create a new project.

Window > Customize Perspective > Shortcuts > Provisioning

Enables selection of shortcuts to create new directory abstraction layer entities, lists, relationships, organizational charts provisioning request definitions.

Window > Customize Perspective > Shortcuts > XML

Enables addition of an XML shortcut.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands

Alphabetically lists the command group plug-ins that you can add as cascade submenus on the current perspective. The Details field identifies which menu item organizational charts toolbar items are added to the perspective by the selected command group. See Using Menus to Open a Perspective.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Breakpoints

Adds breakpoints functionality to the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > com.novell.designer.idm.actionSet

Adds Help set functionality to the menu: Check for Designer Updates, What’s New, Designer Readme, Report a Bug or Feedback, and Identity Manager Resources.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Debug

Adds Debug plug-in functionality to the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Deploy

Enables the Deploy plug-in command. See Deploying the Schema into the Identity Vault in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Designer

Adds standard Designer commands to the toolbar: Save All, Delete selected object(s), Undo, and Redo.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Designer Projects ActionSet

Adds Designer project import control options to the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Document Generation

Adds Generate Documentation icon to the toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Editor

Adds cut, copy, and paste to the menu and toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Editor Navigation

Adds Last Edit Location navigation to the menu and toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > > Editor Presentation

Adds a toggle to Show Selected Element Only on the toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Generate Documentation

Adds a Generate Documentation for This Project icon to the toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Identity Vault

Adds Identity Vault resource information for a project to the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Insert

Enables the Insert plug-in command.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Keyboard Shortcuts

Adds keyboard shortcuts to the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Launch

Adds Run program functionality to the menu and adds the Launch plug-in to the toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Manage Objects in a Novell eDirectory Tree

Adds the eDirectory Object Manager to the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Manage Objects in a Novell eDirectory Tree

Adds the Live > Manage Directory functionality to the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Open Files

Adds the browse to and open a text or XML file plug-in to the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Profile

Adds the Run > Profile tools on the menu and toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Project Actions

Launches the project snap-in.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Project Checker

Places the Project Checker icon on Designer’s toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Resource Navigation

Adds Navigation tools as an option on the menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Run the User Application

Adds the Access User Application function as an option on the Tools menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Tools

Adds the Tools function as an option on the Project menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Version Control Action Set

Adds the Action Set function as an option on the Web browser toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > View DS Trace Logs

Adds the DS Trace function as an option on the Tools menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > WebBrowser

Adds the Launch Web Browser Wizard to the Web browser toolbar.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > WebBrowser

Adds the Launch Web Browser Wizard to the Window menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Window Working Set Menu

Adds the Working Set function to the Window drop-down menu.

Window > Customize Perspective > Commands > Window Working Set Toolbar

Adds the Working Set function to the Web browser toolbar.

Window > Save Perspective As

An easy, efficient way to lay out the current perspective in a certain way and then save it. You can freely switch between perspectives and still operate in the same editors and views.

Window > Reset Perspective

Returns the perspective to its original layout. If the perspective is a copied perspective, it returns to the original, preferred layout of the base perspective.

Window > Close Perspective

Closes the current perspective.

Window > Close All Perspectives

Closes all open perspectives.

Window > Navigation > Show System Menu

Displays the active system menu.

Window > Navigation > Show View Menu

When active, shows the View menu.

Window > Navigation > Quick Access

Enables you to search for a specific function by typing in the desired function into the

Window > Navigation > Maximize Active View or Editor

Maximizes the active view or editor. Ctrl+M toggles between views.

Window > Navigation > Minimize Active View or Editor

Minimizes the active view or editor. Ctrl+M toggles between views.

Window > Navigation > Activate Editor

Enables you to select which editor to activate. F12 is the hotkey.

Window > Navigation > Next Editor

Allows you to select and open an editor from a list. Ctrl+F6 navigates down this list.

Window > Navigation > Previous Editor

Allows you to select and open an editor from a list. Ctrl+Shift+F6 navigates up this list.

Window > Navigation > Switch to Editor

Allows you to select and manage editors.

Window > Navigation > Next View

Allows you to select and open a view from a list. Ctrl+F7 navigates down this list.

Window > Navigation > Previous View

Allows you to select and open a view from a list. Ctrl+Shift+F7 navigates up this list.

Window > Navigation > Next Perspective

Allows you to toggle perspectives within projects from a list. Ctrl+F8 is the hotkey.

Window > Navigation > Previous Perspective

Allows you to view previous perspectives from a list. Ctrl+Shift+F8 is the hotkey.

Window > Launch Web Browser

Specifies your Home Page URL, which is stored in Preferences.

Window > Working Sets > Edit

Allows you to create working sets in a project

Window > Preferences

Enables you to customize Designer's behavior in the following categories:

  • General

    • Appearance

    • Editors

  • Help

  • Novell

    • Designer

    • Identity Manager

    • Provisioning

  • Web and XML

    • CSS Files

    • HTML Files

    • JavaScript Files

    • XML Files

See Setting Preferences in the Designer 3.0.1 for Identity Manager 3.6 Administration Guide.