Browsing and Watching Published TDV Resources
You can browse through all of the published TDV resources for the sites registered with Business Directory.
If you decide to watch a resource, you are sent emails anytime a comment is added or if any of the resource metadata changes in any way. For example, if a site refresh is run and a resource has three new columns, you are sent an email.
To browse published TDV resources
1. Make sure that the site you are interested in browsing has been recently refreshed for the most current view of published resources.
2. Select BROWSE.
3. Select one or more of the registered sites.
4. Expand the site to view the published Database and Web Service resources.
5. Select a specific resource to view properties and details of the resource.
When you select a resource in the left pane, details for the resource are displayed to the right and include some of the following:
— A navigation bar showing the nodes leading to the resource currently selected. You can click any node to view that part of the resource tree.
— The name of the resource.
— WSDL URLs.
— The type of resource (procedure, table, and so on).
— Primary and foreign key information.
— Index.
— The host name and port name, or a name assigned to the resource.
There is also a set of tabs, which vary depending on the type of object you are viewing, with further resource information:
— Parameters (procedure)—Parameter name, data type, direction.
— Resources (folder)—Resource name and type (web service, database, folder, and so on).
— Columns (table)— Column name, data type, whether it is a primary or a foreign key, whether it is indexed, and annotations. If a primary key column is displayed, you can navigate to the tables that use this primary key as a foreign key. Additionally, any columns that are foreign keys have a link back to the table in which this foreign key is a primary key.
— Operations (Web Service)—Operation name and type, and annotations.
— Properties—Property name, default value, current value.
— Data—Preview of the data that this resource can retrieve.
— Lineage—Diagram of the data lineage for the object. For details of what data lineage is within TDV, see the TDV User Guide.
6. To watch the object, click Watch.
— You might be asked to type your name and email address so that notifications can be sent to you.
— To watch the associated child objects, click Watch Children.