Royal TS V2: “Properties” and “Notes” panel
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11/8/2011 11:13 AM
In the this blog post we want to draw your attention to some “not-so-super-exciting” panels – but they still have some nice hidden features: the properties panel and the notes panel.
To Show or not to show
By default when you start Royal TS V2 the properties panel as well as the notes panel is not visible. To show them click in the Ribbon on “Other Panels” (or use “F4” as shortcut for the properties panel).
Both panels can be docked to the edges (default) or tabbed in the tab bar.
As you see in the center of the picture above you can work in the same way as with any advanced docking framework you might know and love.
Additionally you can have them as floating child windows (you get this with drag n drop or with double-clicking the title bar)
When docked to the edges you can also use the pin glyph to auto-hide them.
The properties panel
The properties panel shows … you guessed it! … the properties of a selected object. Besides some meta-data like “Created”, “Created by”, “Modified” and “Modified by” this panel shows its most usefulness when showing properties of connections or tasks. Everything (and more) that you can manipulate through the UI is shown here also. The data shown is read-only though.
5 Tips to work with the properties panel
Since especially in the case of connection objects, the amount of data shown is huge. To work more efficiently with it you can
1. Click on the header „Property Name” or “Value” to sort view
2. Double-click on any row to copy the value in the clipboard
3. Press CRTL-F and enter a string – the panel content is then filtered
4. Right-click on any row – this especially allows you to edit the selected object (not the specific property)
5. If you click on a pre/post connection task you have “Execute” in the context menu and can directly execute the task!
6. If you right click on any Custom Field (1 to 10) you have the “Execute” menu enabled as well. So if you entered a URL it is opened in the default browser. This is quite handy if you store e.g. web interfaces to admin websites. And of course it works with commands as well (as in the screenshot you can see “cmd.exe” in Custom Field 1)
The notes panel
For any selected object (any connection, task, credential, folder, document – even the application document - you can attach some notes to it. Click “Edit Notes” to bring up the rich text popup (which might take a little bit of time for the first time you launch it).
If you attach notes in the Application document they get saved automatically, for all other documents you have to save them for yourself.
Cheers,
Michael