Object Type Availability

This option enables you to activate or deactivate the various object types within the data warehouse repository. Enable/Disable object types in the data warehouse by selecting/clearing the availability checkboxes for each object type. All settings are enabled by default, except for the Enable Cube and Enable Virtual Cube options which are soon to be deprecated.

Object Type Names

This option enables you to set the names for the various object types.
Set the Name for each object type.

Data Vault Repository Types: Users with Data Vault model type licenses that select a Data Vault repository type while creating the RED metadata repository will have appropriate Data Vault repository default settings, such as Object Type Names, Global Naming of Tables, Indexes, Key Columns and Procedures/Scripts; as well as other repository settings/user preferences. These repository types will have their default Object Type Names of Normalized and Data Store objects set to Hub/Link and Satellite.

 

Object Type Ordering

This option enables you to set the ordering in which the object types appear in the object tree.
Set the Ordering of the object types as displayed in the object tree pane.

 

Object Type End User Setting

This option enables you to set the Object types as end-user objects.
All the options in this screen are selected by default.
Clear an object type check box to remove it as an end-user object, else leave selected.

 

Object Type Icon

This option enables you to configure the Icons for all Object Types. To configure custom Object Type icons:

  1. Create an 'Icons' folder in the WhereScape RED install directory, if it doesn't exist. For example:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\WhereScape\Icons
  2. Place custom '.ico' files in the Icons folder.
  3. In RED, select Options > Object Types > Object Type Icon.
  4. Click the ellipses button '...' next to each Object Type and select the desired icon.
  5. All configured icons are displayed as file names on the screen. To save changes, click OK.

To Reset An Icon

To reset an icon to default, click the reset button next to the icon.

Reset All Icons

To reset all icons to default, click the Reset All Icons button at the top of the dialog.

All installations must have a copy of the icon directory.

Object Type Color

This option enables you to set the diagram colors for each object type.
Set the Diagram Color for each object type.

Object Sub Types

This option enables you to set the Default Sub Type for enabled object types in RED. Select the desired default sub-types from the Object's drop-down lists.

For example, to have Dimension objects created in RED as Changing Dimensions at the time of drag and drop, select the Changing Dimension option in the Default Sub Type for Dimension Objects. After the table is dragged and dropped, users can simply hit enter to proceed on the Dimension Type where the Slowly Changing type is already the default subtype option, as previously selected in Tool > Options menu.

The Dimension Properties screen also reflects the selected table subtype on the Table Type drop-down list.

 

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