Data Source Explorer View

This view presents in a tree-like fashion the database connections configured from menu Options > Preferences > Data Sources. You can connect to a database simply by expanding the connection node. The database structure can be expanded up to column level. Oxygen XML Author supports multiple simultaneous database connections and the connections tree provides an easy way to browse them.

Data Source Explorer View

The following objects are displayed by the Data Source Explorer view:

A collection (called catalog in some databases) is a hierarchical container for resources and further sub-collections. There are two types of resources:

Note: For some connections you can add or move resources into container by dragging them from Project view, the default file system application (Windows Explorer on Windows or Finder on Mac OS X, for example) or from another database container.

The following actions are available in the view's toolbar: