Oracle Data Integrator Studio ODI 11G Features

Oracle Data Integrator provides a new IDE (Integrated development Environment) called the ODI Studio. It is developed based on JDeveloper.

It includes the several features:

1. New Navigator Organization
2. New Look and Feel
3. Redesigned Editors
4. Window Management
5. Document Management and Navigation
6. Improved User Assistance

New Navigator Organization 

The older versions of oracle data integrator have separate module interfaces for components like Designer, Topology, Operator and Security Manager. All these modules now appear as Navigators within the Oracle Data Integrator Studio window of ODI 11G version.

The new Oracle Data Integrator studio is used as a replacement for all Oracle Data Integrator modules (Designer, Topology, Operator and Security Manager).

Navigator organization provides the following features:

· Navigators can be docked/undocked

· Navigator can be hidden

· Accordions group the tree views that appear in the Navigators (for example the Project and Models accordions in the Designer Navigator).

· Not frequently used Accordions can be minimized to allow more room for the other tree views.

· Accordions allow access to the tree view-specific actions from their toolbar menu (for example, import project from the Project Accordion in the Designer Navigator).

· Tree Views objects are provided with context menus and markers the same way as in Oracle Data Integrator 10g.

· Tree view objects can be dragged and dropped within a tree view or across tree views for defining the security policies. Double clicking an object opens by default the corresponding Object Editor.

· Context Menus have been reorganized into groups with separators and normalized across the interface.

· This feature provides a single user interface from which the user can perform all the tasks in a project lifecycle. It also provides a better productivity for the user.

· Using the View menu Navigators can be docked/undocked and displayed/hidden. 

2. New Look and Feel

This new look and feel is customizable with the Preferences menu option. Icons are being redesigned in a new, trendy style to enhance the overall visual appeal of Oracle Data Integrator 

3. Redesigned Editors

For better usability all object editors in Oracle Data Integrator have been redesigned.

Main changes are:

1. Tabs are organized as finger tabs on the left hand-side of the editor. Complex editors (as for example Interface or Package Editors) have also tabs appearing in the bottom of the editor.
2. Fields have been grouped under headers. These field groups implement an expand/collapse behavior.
3. Fields and labels have been organized in a standard way for all editors for a better readability of the editors.
4. Text Buttons in the editors are transformed into hyperlinks, and all buttons appearing in editors have been redesigned.

5. Knowledge Modules, Actions and Procedure editors have been redesigned in order to edit the Lines directly from the main editor instead of opening a separate editor. 

4. Window Management

1. Full Docking Support:

· All windows, editors and navigators can now be docked and undocked intuitively.

· Fast maximize and restore: To quickly maximize a dockable window or the editor area, double-click on the title bar of the window you want to maximize. To restore the window to its previous dimensions, double-click again on the title bar.

· Title bars as tabs: The tab for a dockable window (when tabbed with another dockable window) is now also the title bar. This makes more effective use of the space on the screen. Reposition a window by dragging its tab. Some additional related enhancements include a new context menu from the gray background area behind the tab, change in terminology from "auto-hide" and "show" to "minimize" and "restore", ability to minimize a set of tabbed windows with a single click, and toggling the display of a minimized window by clicking on its button.

5. Document Management and Navigation

Object edition has been enhanced in the Oracle Data Integrator Studio with improved document management.

This includes:

1. Save and close multiple editors: You can easily save all your work with a single click using the File > Save All option and close all opened editors similarly. You can also close all the editors but the current one.

2. Forward and back buttons: Now you can easily return to a previously visited document with the convenient browser-style forward and back buttons on the main toolbar. These buttons maintain a history, so you can drop down the back or forward button to get a list of the documents and edit locations you have visited. Alt+Left and Alt+Right activate the back and forward buttons.

3. Quick document switching: Switching between editors and navigators is also possible. Now when you press Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+F6, you can choose which document you want to switch from a list ordered by the most recently used. You can use the same technique to switch between open dockable windows by first placing focus in a dockable window, then pressing Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+F6.

6.Improved User Assistance

Oracle Data Integrator introduces intuitive new features that improve usability:

· Help Center/Welcome Page: The Welcome page has been transformed into the Help Center, redesigned to provide the user with quick access to help topics and common tasks, as well as links to useful Oracle resources.

· New On-Line Help: The online help has been entirely re-written for supporting the new user interface.

· Help bookmarks: The Help window has a tab labeled Favorites. While browsing the help, you can click on the Add to Favorites button to add the document to this tab.