Table Entry Editor Context Menu

This section describes the context menu of the Table Entry editor.

New Attribute...

  • Opens the New Attribute wizard . When finishing the wizard a new attribute is created and the edit mode is started to enter a value.

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  • Shortcut: Shift-Ctrl-+

New Value

  • Adds a new value to the selected attribute and starts the edit mode.

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  • Enabled: If one attribute or value is selected.

  • Shortcut: Ctrl-+

New Search...

  • Opens the Search dialog . The selected attributes and values are used to build the search filter (Query by example).

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  • Enabled: If attributes or values are selected.

  • Shortcut: Ctrl-H

New Batch Operation...

  • Opens the Batch Operation wizard . If one or multiple DN values are selected these DNs are used as operation objects. Otherwise the selected attributes and values are used to build the search filter (Query by example).

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  • Enabled: If attributes or values are selected.

Locate DN in DIT

  • Locates the entry of the selected DN in DIT.

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  • Enabled: If one value is selected and this value is a distinguished name.

  • Shortcut: F3

Open Schema Browser -> Object Class Definition

  • Opens the Object Class page in Schema Browser and selects the object class definition of the currently selected objectClass value.

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  • Enabled: If one objectClass value is selected and the schema contains this object class.

Open Schema Browser -> Attribute Type Definition

  • Opens the Attribute Type page in Schema Browser and selects the attribute type definiton of the currently selected attribute.

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  • Enabled: If one attribute or value is selected and the schema contains this attribute type.

Open Schema Browser -> Equality Matching Rule Definition

  • Opens the Matching Rule page in Schema Browser and selects the equality matching rule definiton of the currently selected attribute.

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  • Enabled: If one attribute or value is selected, the attribute provides an equality matching rule and the schema contains this matching rule.

Open Schema Browser -> Substring Matching Rule Definition

  • Opens the Matching Rule page in Schema Browser and selects the substring matching rule definiton of the currently selected attribute.

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  • Enabled: If one attribute or value is selected, the attribute provides a substring matching rule and the schema contains this matching rule.

Open Schema Browser -> Ordering Matching Rule Definition

  • Opens the Matching Rule page in Schema Browser and selects the ordering matching rule definiton of the currently selected attribute.

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  • Enabled: If one attribute or value is selected, the attribute provides an ordering matching rule and the schema contains this matching rule.

Open Schema Browser -> Syntax Definition

  • Opens the Syntax page in Schema Browser and selects the syntax definiton of the currently selected attribute.

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  • Enabled: If one attribute or value is selected, the attribute provides an syntax and the schema contains this syntax.

Copy Values

  • Copies the selected values. The values are copied to clipboard in an internal format so they could be pasted to another entry even in the search result editor. Additional the displayed values are copied to the system clipboard as string so they could be pasted in other applications. New-line is used as value separator.

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  • Shortcut: Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Insert

Paste Values

  • Pasted the previously copied values to the current entry. Each value is copied separately, when an error occurs while adding the value the paste operation will continue with the next value.

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  • Enabled: If the system clipboard contains values.

  • Shortcut: Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert

Delete

  • Deletes the selected attributes and values.

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  • Enabled: If attributes and values are selected.

  • Shortcut: Delete

Select All

  • Selects all attributes and values.

  • Shortcut: Ctrl-A

Advanced > Copy DN

  • Copies the distinguished name of the current entry (e.g. cn=John Fowler,ou=People,o=JNDITutorial)

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Advanced > Copy URL

  • Copies the URL of the current entry (e.g. ldap://localhost:389/cn=John Fowler,ou=People,o=JNDITutorial)

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Advanced > Copy Attribute Descriptions

  • Copies the attribute descriptions of the selected attributes and values as string to the system clipboard.

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Advanced > Copy Display Values

  • Copies the values as displayed in the entry editor, either decorated or not.

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Advanced > Copy Values (UTF-8)

  • Copies the selected values UTF-8 encoded to the system clipboard.

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Advanced > Copy Values (BASE-64)

  • Copies the selected values BASE-64 encoded to the system clipboard.

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Advanced > Copy Values (HEX)

  • Copies the selected values HEX encoded to the system clipboard.

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Advanced > Copy Name-Value-Pairs as LDIF

  • Copies the selected attribute and values in LDIF format to the system clipboard.

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Advanced > Copy Search Filter

Builds search filters from the selected attributes and values. There are four options:

  • Default

    • Copies the selected attribute and value as LDAP search filter (attribute=value).

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    • Enabled: If one value is selected.

  • NOT

    • Copies the selected attribute and value as LDAP NOT search filter (!(attribute=value)).

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    • Enabled: If one value is selected.

  • AND

    • Copies the selected attributes and values as LDAP AND search filter (&(attribute1=value1)...(attributeN=valueN)).

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  • OR

    • Copies the selected attributes and values as LDAP OR search filter (|(attribute1=value1)...(attributeN=valueN)).

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Advanced > Delete Attributes

  • Deletes all values of the selected attributes. Applicable to multi-valued attributes, if you want to delete the complete attribute just select one value use this action.

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  • Enabled: If values of multi-valued attributes are selected.

Edit Attribute Description

  • Opens the Edit Attribute wizard . When changing the attribute description a add operation and a delete operation is performed.

  • Enabled: If one attribut or value is selected.

  • Shortcut: F6

Edit Value

  • Edits the selected value using the default value editor. To change the default value editor see Value Editors preferences .

  • Enabled: If one value is selected.

  • Shortcut: F7 or Enter

Edit Value With

  • Depending on the selected value there could be alternate value editors. To edit the selected value with another value editor choose one of the listed editors.

  • Enabled: If one value is selected.

Edit Entry...

Reload Attributes

  • Reloads the attributes of the current entry.

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  • Shortcut: F5

Fetch Operational Attributes

  • Loads the operational attributes of the current entry.

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