Other Dialogs

Global Search

To open this window, use the command Edit / Global Search …

The search can be used to find all occurrences of the search-term within the entire project. The results are displayed in the Search Results window. In contrast to Search within the editor, the results cannot be toggled to the next search result using F3. The references can be opened using the Search Results window.

Find what

The text to be searched.

Look in

Defines the search area as specified in the following table:

Area	Includes
Whole Project	Searches through all templates, all tasks, the variables of the project and tasks as well as the task's loops and the variables defined in the frame settings.
Whole Project (including functions)	Identical to Whole Project except that the user-defined functions are searched through additionally.
Actual File	Searches within the file that is currently active on the editor.
Names of templates (finds templates only)	Searches for templates that names matches the text to find.

Match Whole Word

If you activate this option, the search will identify all occurrences of the whole word.

The text String, for example, will be found in String myStringVar, but not in myStringVar.

Match Case

If you activate this option, the search will be case-sensitive.

Use Regular Expression

If you activate this option, the search will consider the search text as a regular expression. For more information on this issue, see Microsoft Regular Expression Language - Quick Reference.

Find

Starts the search. The search results are displayed in the Search Results window.

Close

Closes the window.

Code Snippet Properties

In this dialog you can view and edit the properties of a code snippet. If the dialog was called up by selecting the Properties option in the context menu for the Code Snippets window, the properties can only be viewed and not edited.

Category

Here you can specify the group for the code snippet. You can open the list of groups by pressing ALT + DOWN. This contains all the groups that already exist in My Code Snippets. You can also enter a new group name. This field is mandatory.

Name

The name of the code snippet. The name appears as node text underneath the code snippet group in the Code Snippet window. This field is mandatory.

Description

An optional description of the code snippet. The description also appears as a tool tip when you hover the mouse over the code snippet.

Author

The author of the code snippet. This field is optional.

Copyright

An optional copyright notice.

Code

The code that is inserted into an Editor window when the code snippet is used. This field is also optional.

For detailed information about inserting code snippets, see chapter "Using code snippets".

Connection Unit

ConnectionGroup

Here you can specify the group for the connection. You can open the list of groups by pressing ALT + DOWN. This contains all the groups that already exist in Connections. You can also enter a new group name. This field is mandatory.

Name

The display name of the connection. The name appears as node text underneath the group in the Data Connection pane. This field is mandatory.

Description

An optional description of the connection. The description is displayed as a tool tip when you hover the mouse over the connection.

Test Connection

Establishes a temporary connection to check whether the settings are correct.

To test the connection the appropriate database driver for the selected database has to be installed.

Security...

Opens the Encryption Settings dialog where the security settings can be edited.

Encryption Settings

Encrypt the data connection

Specifies whether the connection strings that are dragged into a text editor or created by a Wizard are encrypted. An encrypted string does not contain any plain text.

Use password to decrypt

Prompts the user to enter a password in order to decrypt or use the connection. This option is only available if the option Encrypt the data connection is selected.

Password

Enter the password that needs to be entered for decryption to take place. This option is only available if the options Encrypt the data connection and Use password to decrypt are selected.

Confirm password

Confirm the password entered under Password above. This option is only available if the options Encrypt the data connection and Use password to decrypt are selected.

Choose Connection

Source

Specifies the source for the connection to be used. This is either Project or My Connections.

Group

Specifies the group within the selected source that contains the data connection.

Connection

Specifies the data connection to be used.

Filter

If the selected data connection supports filters, you can define further options for filtering the search results here. Which options are available depends on the selected data connection.

Suggestions for Candidates

This dialog offers a simple method to edit the configuration file for masking and synthesizing.

For each table there is an expandable row under which the masks and the suggestions for candidates are available.

For details about the configuration, the possible masks and the candidate suggestions, see chapter "Configure candidates for masking".

Encrypt text

This dialog offers a method to encrypt passwords for the internal encryption and decryption service of TDM Studio.

Enter the password that you want to encrypt into the Text To Encrypt field. The Encrypted Text field displays the encrypted string and is automatically updated when you change the contents of the Text To Encrypt field.

Click Copy To Clipboard to copy the encrypted text to the clipboard.

If you select Show As Text, the content of the Text To Encrypt field is displayed as plain text.