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The Context Menu of Data Model Elements

There are a number of options available in the context menu which

appears when you right-click on any of the elements of the data model

(Figure 25).

Figure 25

For themes, the ‘Edit’ option opens the ‘Edit Theme’ dialog which allows

you to edit the theme name. For all other data model elements the ‘Edit’

option opens the ‘Properties’ dialog. Please refer to section ‘The Properties

Dialog of Indicators, Dates and Associates’ for further information.

With the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ options you can change the order of

elements within the current hierarchy level of the current data model

branch. This can also be done manually by dragging and dropping an

indicator into position (only within the data model on the right-hand side).

Using the ‘Expand’ and ‘Collapse’ options you can expand/collapse themes

to view or hide the indicator belonging to them. You can also

expand/collapse indicators to view or hide associates defined for the

indicator(s).

The option ‘Sort’ only applies to indicators and allows you to sort any

highlighted indicators alphabetically.

Using the ‘Merge Indicators’ option you can define the highlighted

indicators to be different dates of the same indicator. They will each have

the same indicator name and their current names will be used as the dates.

This option is detailed in section ‘Multiple Indicator Dates‘.

To remove an element of the data model, select the ‘Remove’ option. If

you remove a theme that contains indicators or an indicator with associates

the containing elements (‘child elements’) will also be deleted.

The Properties Dialog of Indicators, Dates and Associates

The Properties dialog of indicators, dates and associates allows you to

modify their settings, such as the Name, Date Data Type and Metadata

URL (Figure 26). Depending on the element type (indicator date or

associate) some settings may be disabled. The fields ‘Source’ and ‘Parent’

cannot be edited and are for reference only. ‘Source’ shows the name of

the original data field used. ‘Parent’ shows the indicator name that an

associate belongs to.