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Navigation in MetaCroc #

Summary #

This page provides a basic overview of working with the MetaCroc system, allowing you to understand its philosophy, navigate the user interface for different types of elements in panels. It describes the basic principles, characteristics of MetaCroc, how to use this guide to obtain further information, terminology used, etc.

User interface #

The user interface looks like this (example in Chrome):

Page There are three main areas on the page:

Page Header - Switching between PROJECT VIEW/SETTINGS, information about the logged-in user, global search

Element Tree Panel - Elements tree structure with active locks indication

Element Workspace - Area where element editing takes place

Page Header #

The page header shows information about the project and information about the logged-in user. Logout option, global search in the project and access to project settings are available here: Page header

Mode selection: SETTINGS for project settings, PROJECT VIEW for actual metadata creation

Global search: full-text search in all project metadata

Information about the logged-in user with logout option

Project Panel #

The Project panel provides hierarchical view of project elements and tools for bulk editing of objects.

Element Tree

  • Icon bar (1)
  • Search (2)
  • Object tree (3)

The Project panel provides objects’ display, selection, export, import and code generation for selected objects, bulk saving, editing, etc. The Object tree can contain following types of elements:

ElementDescription
SystemSystem represents a data source. Most often a database. Depending on the system, attribute stereotypes (data types) templates for script creation are defined.
FolderFolder is a container for objects. Nested objects can be other folders or elements (tables, API nodes).
TableTable represents a table with columns and other properties in the system
MappingMapping describes a data transformations (ETL/ELT)
API NodeAPI node represents a data source accessible via API
ViewView
QuaueQueue
Workflow FolderWorkflow folder is a container for workflows. It is created simultaneously with the creation of a system and can contain only workflows
WorkflowWorkflow

Details about Elements Tree are described here.

Object Workspace #

The Object Workspace is the area of the screen where activities directly affecting the stored metadata associated with individual project objects are performed. For easy orientation, we’ll divide the workspace into: Working Area

Object workspace

  • Tab bar (1)
  • Version panel (2)
  • Edit panel (3)
  • Object panel (4)

Details of the Object Workspace are described in detail here