Any object in our solution has basic properties we can be interested in looking at. This recipe starts by looking at how we can display a basic folder's properties by using the Properties dialog box.
For this recipe, it is important that we use an administrator role's user to be able to access the basic folder's properties for folders contained in public folders. If the user we are using to access Pentaho with is a normal user, he or she can access basic folders' properties only for folders in his or her home directory folders.
The following steps describe how we can access a basic folder's properties.
Go to the solution explorer and browse the solution's folder structure looking for folder that we want to move to
Trash.Select the folder by clicking on it, then from the Folder Actions menu, select the Properties... menu entry.
As shown in the following screenshot, the Display Properties dialog box opens up with the General tab selected by default:
We can either click on the OK or Cancel button to close it.
The Display Properties dialog box is the dialog box that shows us all the basic attributes related to an object in the Pentaho solution. Let's take a brief look at these attributes:
Name: This is the name of the object whose properties we're going to display. In our case, this is a folder and it is named Pentaho BA Cookbook.
Type: This is the type of the object; the folder in our case.
Source: This gives us the complete path to the folder in the Pentaho solution where this specific object is located. In our case, because it is a folder in public folders, we have
/public/Pentaho BA Cookbook.Location: This is the path to the object in the repository. It can start with either
publicorhomedepending on the base location. It ishomeif the object is stored in the home folders. It ispublicif the object is stored in the public folders.Size: This is the size of the object. In this case, because it is a folder, the size displayed is 0 bytes.
Created: This shows us the date and time related to the creation of this object in the repository.
Last Modified: This shows us the date and time related to the last update for this object.
Hidden: This is a new feature of Pentaho BA Server 5.0. This flag is displayed only to users who are members of the administrator role and is left unchecked if this content must be made visible to any user.