The Current Table 

In each mode, the MDM Client operates on the current table. The current table is displayed in the drop-down list control at the far left of the toolbar (figure below).

When you open the drop-down list, the table list includes all the tables in an MDM repository, ordered first by table type and then alphabetically within table type (following figure). The main table, then the set of subtables and the Masks table, then the set of object tables, then the special tables, are each separated by gray lines in the table list.

Recall that not all tables can be viewed and edited in each mode. When you open the table list, those tables that cannot be selected in the current mode are unavailable. Further, a mode itself is unavailable if the MDM repository contains no tables of the appropriate type (for example, you cannot enter Taxonomy mode if there are no taxonomy tables).

When you first start the MDM Client, it places you in Record mode and makes the main table the current table. When you change to each of the other modes for the first time, it automatically selects a table of the proper type, and then remembers the current table selection for each mode as you change the current table in each mode and move back and forth between modes.

Detailed instructions for using the features of each mode are provided in later parts of this guide.