Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

The Designer screen's components

The designer screen, as can be seen in the following screenshot, is divided into five sections. Each section has its own purpose. You need to understand each component properly as we will be referring to these components regularly in the next chapters. They are as follows:

• Navigator: This is used to connect to repositories and open folders. You can copy objects and create shortcuts within the navigator. Navigator allows you to reuse the existing components.
• Workspace: This is the space where you actually do the coding. Open different tools in this window to create and edit the repository objects, such as sources, targets, mapplets, transformations, and mappings. In the designer workspace, you can see different tabs, ...