2 Enhancement Requests

[gittar29]

Not sure if these have already been addressed- my guess is someone thought of these. If these are actually available, I havent been searching through the preferences enough.

1) The browser window really restricts the coding window. Since a lot of packages..tables..etc. have very long names, I find myself opening the browser to the size of half the screen! If the was a way to "pin/unpin" the windows as in Microsoft Visual Studio that would be great. When the focus is off the browser, it goes away and allows the coding windows to take up the entire screen. If you mouse over a tiny icon, it will bring back the browser to the position you want it.

2) Seperate the tables..views...etc by schema owner. In a typical Oracle Apps system, you have the HR, PA..etc. owners. To make seperate folders for each owner could improve time to list these, and make it easier for the user to logically find tables by owners.

I realize there is a search option, but with 1000's of tables, this is not going to work. Just my thoughts!

 

[Marco Kalter]

I have added your suggestions to the list of enhancement requests. Note that you can access objects by owner through the Users > (User) > Objects hierarchy in the Object Browser.

 

[ScottMattes]

And, you can do as I have done and add an entry for the schema of the project/s that you are working on. Just click on the main menu Tools / Browser Filters... I even have mine at the top of the list so that it is the default.

 

[mike]

I like the idea. Just in case you are new to PL/SQL Developer or something, this is what I did to address this - it kind of bugged me too.

In the Key Configuration tab in the preferences, you can assign the tools/browser and tools/code contents menu items to hot keys.

I re-assigned F1 to hide/show the browser and F2 to hide/show the package contents for example. Not as elegant as your idea, but still nicer than dragging the bar back and forth I think.

 

[gittar29]

These are all great ideas and I appeciate the responses. Didn't know about the Hotkeys and didnt think of filtering...learn something new all the time.

I am new to this product after having used a couple others on the market. They are all very similar, but have their own ways of doing things. After using this product for a while, I'm sure I will figure out what suits me best.

Thanks again!