Column Selection

The Column Selection section of the Layout-Filter allows you to select the required columns from the object. Only the selected columns are displayed and populated in the Data Window. For example, if an employee table contains employee number, employee name and salary columns. You can display only employee number and employee name columns in the Data Window.

Note: You cannot move the primary key (any key-based columns) and not-null columns from the Selected Columns list to the Available Columns list.

Follow these steps:

1. Right-click on an object from Data Source Explorer.
2. Select the Browse... option.

   A Layout-Filter dialog appears.

3. (Optional) Select the columns from the Selected Columns list that you do NOT want to be displayed and click Remove.

   The selected columns are moved from the Selection Columns list to the Available Columns list.

   Note: All the columns of the object are available in the Selected Columns list by default.

4. Arrange the columns in an order using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.

   When the Data Window is populated with the object data, the selected columns are displayed in the same order.

After you select and arrange the required columns in an order, specify the other filter criteria.