Specifying general options

You can define the default behavior to use when you are working with iBase chart items, on the Options page of the Data Sources pane.

General options

Select an option to specify what happens when you double-click items on the chart:

Option

Description

Open their Properties Dialogs

Opens the Analyst's Notebook item properties. The iBase record details are listed as an attached card.

Open their iBase Show dialogs

Opens the iBase record for a selected item, or the list of records for more than one selected items.

Expand the Items

Expands the selected items from the iBase database.

Session defaults

You can set a session default for any standard field or link strength to add the same value to a specified field for each record added during a session. For example, when you create an entity, you see values of the fields set to the default - you can override the default value.

  • Select Session Defaults for Standard Fields to specify different values for the session: Setting session defaults.

  • Turn on Show Session Defaults Dialog at Logon to display the current different values for the session.

Charting settings

Specify which items are selected on the chart, choose a labeling scheme, and set iBase options.

Specify the chart items that are selected and which of them are laid out when they are added to the chart:

  • Only Select Added Items to select items that are added to the chart.

  • Only Layout Newly Added Items to lay out only newly added chart items.

Select iBase Charting Default Options to specify some general settings for how you use iBase.