Meta Data Services Browser Display Options Dialog Box
Use this dialog box to set display options that filter collection and property data in Meta Data Browser.
This dialog box appears when you right-click any item within the Meta Data Services folder, and then click Browse Options. The display options that you select apply to the current item and all items that branch from it.
Collection Options
These options enable you to view collections, and to select whether empty collections and reverse relationships are visible.
Display Collections
Specifies whether object and relationship collections are displayed. The following icon identifies a collection.
Selecting this option enables the following additional options.
Show Empty Collections
Specifies whether empty collections are displayed. Empty collections contain no members.
Show Reverse Relationships
Specifies whether reverse relationships are displayed. Reverse relationships show a relationship from the opposite perspective and may contain additional data not otherwise available. For example, given this one-to-one relationship, car contains engine, the reverse relationship is engine contained by car. The reverse relationship represents a data definition that shows whether one type of engine is used in many types of cars.
Properties Options
These options enable you to show or suppress inherited property values for objects in the Contents and Information Model folders.
Show All Class Properties
Specifies whether inherited properties are displayed. An inherited property is an alias of a property on a base interface. When you show inherited properties, you see both the alias and the base property from which the alias is derived.
Consider a Person object that has a property named Phone Number. Through aliasing, you could base a new property of a different object on Phone Number. For example, a Customer object could have a property named Customer ID that is derived from Phone Number. When you select the Show All Class Properties option, both the inherited property (Customer ID) and the base property (Phone Number) are presented as sibling properties.
See Also
Repository Relationship Objects