Getting Started Guide

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Informatica Developer Overview

The Developer tool is an application that you use to design and implement data integration, data quality, data profiling, data services, and data engineering solutions.

You can use the Developer tool to import metadata, create connections, and create data objects. You can also use the Developer tool to create and run profiles, mappings, and workflows.

Informatica Developer Views

The Developer tool workbench includes an editor and views. You edit objects, such as mappings, in the editor. The Developer tool displays views based on which object is selected in the editor.

You can select additional views, hide views, and move views to another location in the Developer tool workbench.

To select the views you want to display, click

Window

Show View

The Developer tool displays the following views by default:

Connection Explorer view: Displays connections to relational databases.
Data Viewer view: Displays source data, profile results, and previews the output of a transformation.
Object Explorer view: Displays the domain and the design-time and run-time objects in the domain. Design-time objects are stored in projects and folders in the Model repository. Run-time objects are stored as part of a run-time application on a Data Integration Service.
Outline view: Displays objects that are dependent on an object selected in the
Object Explorer
view.
Progress view: Displays the progress of operations in the Developer tool, such as a mapping run.
Properties view: Displays the properties for an object that is selected in the editor.

You can also use the

Show View

menu to show the following views:

Alerts view: Displays connection status alerts.
Checked Out Objects view: Displays all objects that you have checked out.
Notifications view: Displays options to notify users or groups when all work in the Human task is complete.
Object Dependencies view: Displays object dependencies when you view, modify, or delete an object.
Search view: Displays the search results. You can also launch the search options dialog box.
Tags view: Displays tags that define an object in the Model repository based on business usage.