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Challenge:

Using shortcuts and work-arounds to work as efficiently as possible in PowerCenter Mapping Designer and Workflow Manager.

Description:

After you are familiar with the normal operation of PowerCenter Mapping Designer and Workflow Manager, you can use a variety of shortcuts to speed up their operation.

PowerCenter provides two types of shortcuts:

Keyboard shortcuts to edit repository objects and maneuver through the Mapping Designer and Workflow Manager as efficiently as possible, and shortcuts that simplify the maintenance of repository objects.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

Use the following keyboard shortcuts to perform various operations in Mapping Designer and Workflow Manager.

To:	Press:
Cancel editing in an object	Esc
Check and uncheck a check box	Space Bar
Copy text from an object onto a clipboard	Ctrl+C
Cut text from an object onto the clipboard	Ctrl+X
Edit the text of an object	F2. Then move the cursor to the desired location
Find all combination and list boxes	Type the first letter of the list
Find tables or fields in the workspace	Ctrl+F
Move around objects in a dialog box (When no objects are selected, this will pan within the workspace)	Ctrl+directional arrows
Paste copied or cut text from the clipboard into an object	Ctrl+V
Select the text of an object	F2
To start help	F1

To:	Press
Add a new field or port	Alt + F
Copy a row	Alt + O
Cut a row	Alt + C
Move current row down	Alt + W
Move current row up	Alt + U
Paste a row	Alt + P
Validate the default value in a transformation	Alt + V
Open the Expression Editor from the expression field	F2, then press F3
To start the debugger	F9

To:	Press
Create links	Press Ctrl+F2 to select first task you want to link. Press Tab to select the rest of the tasks you want to link Press Ctrl+F2 again to link all the tasks you selected
Edit tasks name in the workspace	F2
Expand a selected node and all its children	SHIFT + *  (use asterisk on numeric keypad)
Move across to select tasks in the workspace	Tab
Select multiple tasks	Ctrl + Mouseclick

The following table summarizes additional shortcut keys that are applicable only when working with Mapping Designer.

When editing a repository object or maneuvering around the Workflow Manager, use the following shortcuts to speed up the operation you are performing.