The User Interface

• The Application Window
  The first time you start the Config Editor (CE), it will prompt you for a workspace directory. The workspace directory is the filesystem location where your projects are stored. We can change this directory later from the File menu.
• Servers view
  The Servers View contains a number of useful functions for managing server instances. Apart from adding and removing server instances there are many commands associated with the servers and their active config instances and AssemblyLines.
• The Expression Editor
  The expression editor is available in many different contexts. Often, when specifying parameter values such as connection parameters, link criteria and so forth we can use the expression editor instead of typing a simple value for the parameter.
• The AssemblyLine Editor
  The AssemblyLine editor is the principal editor used when developing SDI solutions.
• The Connector Editor
  The connector editor is used when you edit connector files or use the Edit function on a Connector inside the AssemblyLine.
• Server Editor
  The server editor is where you define how to reach an SDI server.
• Schema Editor
  The schema editor manages design schema files.
• Data Browser
  The Data Browser provides an in depth look at a target system. Currently there are only the LDAP and JDBC connectors that provide extra details for a connector. The data browser is opened by right clicking a Connector in either the library or in an AssemblyLine.
• Forms Editor
  The forms editor is used to customize the connection parameters form for a component. This can only be applied to components in the Resources folder (except properties files).
• Wizards
  
• Debug AssemblyLines
  The Config Editor is equipped with a number of mechanisms that aid you in developing AssemblyLines, including facilities to test and debug the logic of them.
• Team Support
  The SDI Configuration Editor includes the Eclipse plug-ins that enable sharing of projects between users using a source code control repository.
• The Problems View
  When you save a component, the SDI project builder will update its runtime configuration file to reflect the changes you made.
• JavaScript Enhancements
  Everywhere you edit scripts in the Configuration Editor, you will get a text editor, enhanced specifically for editing JavaScript code.
• Solution Logging and Settings
  The Solution logging and Settings window lets you edit the solution specific areas of the project.
• Server Properties
  We can edit properties for a project using the Properties editor.
• Inheritance
  Components can inherit elements from other components by dragging and dropping an object onto the title bar of a component or subsection of the component.
• Actions and Key Bindings
  The CE contributes a number of actions to itself as well as to objects in the workbench. These actions perform specific operations on specific objects.

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The Configuration Editor