User guide

The view model editor
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Step 3 Navigate in the data catalog view to the object you want to use as in input source. You
can choose a database operation, a data service, or a file in the grid. (To create Input
Source elements from HTTP requests or web services, use the tool in the palette, then
see “Input Source” on page 125 for details on configuring the input source.)
Step 4 Drag the object from the data catalog view into the view model editor where you want
the Input Source object to appear. Once the Input Source is in your model, you can
move it around (see “Selecting and moving elements” on page 56), connect it to other
elements in your model (see “Creating connections between elements” on page 57), or
edit its properties (see “Properties dialogs” on page 58.).
Selecting and moving elements
In order to manipulate the input sources, operators, and Result elements in your view
model, you must first select them. To do so, you use the Select (arrow) tool in the pal-
ette. Note that this is the tool at the top of the palette, not the Select
tool in the Operators section of the palette, which is used to filter out rows from a
result set (see “Select” on page 165).
You can choose the Select tool by clicking it in the palette. The Select tool is also
automatically selected after you use one of the other tools. To select an object, you
simply click on it in the view model editor. To select multiple objects in your model,
hold down the Shift key and click each object in turn. Alternatively, using the Select
tool, click in the background of the editor pane and drag to create a marquee around
the objects you want to select. When you have enclosed them all, release the mouse
button and the objects will be selected.
Selected objects are indicated in the view model editor by a rectangle enclosing them
as well as four selection “handles”—little boxes at the corners of the enclosing box.
Selected connection arrows are thicker than unselected ones and have a selection han-
dle at each end. You can click and drag to move selected elements around the view