Wish List - Getting to the data faster

[Salamander]

My biggest reason for using pl/SQL Devleoper over SQL-plus is the grid layout when viewing or editing data. Yet it takes a long time to get there!

1. Log in
2. Scroll to "tables" after finding it in the list (drag)
3. Open the tables items (click)
4. Scroll to the table you want. (drag)
5. Right click - Choose "Edit" (click)

Toad does it in many less steps.
1. Log in (using your saved DB password)
2. Click on the table.

Is there a way to configure pl/SQL developer so that my most common action of viewing the data grid takes the least number of clicks and drags?

 

[aotte]

Here's something that can help you right now:

2. Scroll to "tables" after finding it in the list
Tools | Preferences | Browser
- Drag the Tables folder to the top in the Selected Folders list

4. Scroll to the table you want. (drag)
Using the little wrench icon in the browser window, configure the table list to only show you the tables you are most commonly interested in, sorted, the way you like it.

Hope this reduces your click effort some...

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Hakuna Matata,

Arnoud.

 

[Marco Kalter]

There is also a "Recent objects" folder that contains the objects you most recently used. Furthermore you can create a Project for a specific set of objects.

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations

 

[rbrooker]

you can also expand the tables folder, type the first letters of the table that you want to find and zoom, plsql dev does its usual whizzy stuff and goes straight to the first matching node ( if you have another collection open, say sequences, and the first node that matches is there, that one will be highlighted ). this will only work on expanded collections.

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richard.brooker@vuw.ac.nz