MetaMiner Client > Common Functionality > Context Menu Commands:

View/Modify Properties

Each node (document, folder, container) in your BI landscape has some properties that you can view and sometimes modify in the Properties dialog window.

To view object properties:

1.	In the Content Area, select a node.

Tip
You can choose a document of any type (Kind), container, folder, connection, top level container, entire environment.

Warning
You cannot choose multiple objects.

2.	Choose Properties... from the context menu, or Press Alt + Enter. The Properties dialog window opens:

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If several nodes were previously selected, properties for the first object in the tree are shown.

3.	View your properties. Note that the set of available properties vary and depends on object type, other options.

The most important properties are described in the table below:

Name	Description
ID	An identifier of the selected object, which is unique only in this environment. ID algorithm: incremental. There may be some objects with the same ID in other environments. This ID corresponds to SI_ID in SAP.
CUID	This CUID is the unique object identifier in a cluster and that it remains same across environments. It corresponds to SI_CUID in SAP. if you export an object, its copy has the same CUID.
Parent ID	ID (SI_ID) of the parent node. It corresponds to SI_PARENTID in SAP. For users who belong to multiple groups, ID of node Everyone.
Kind	Document type, or Kind. It corresponds to SI_KIND in SAP.
Description	Some description of the selected object. You can also edit this description. To do it, click Modify Description. It corresponds to SI_DESCRIPTION in SAP.

For environment nodes, the list of available properties is different:

Name	Description
Name	Corresponds to the Display name field in the Add SAP BusinessObjects Environment dialog window in MetaMiner Administrator. See Setting Up and Running MM Server and MM Administrator
CMS Host	Corresponds to the CMS server field in the Add SAP BusinessObjects Environment dialog window in MetaMiner Administrator. See Setting Up and Running MM Server and MM Administrator
ID	It is always 4 for an environment.
Version	Version of SAP BusinessObjects suite, for example 12.5
Audit DB Type	Corresponds to the Audit DB Type field in the Add SAP BusinessObjects Environment dialog window in MetaMiner Administrator. See Setting Up and Running MM Server and MM Administrator
Description	Corresponds to the Description field in the Add SAP BusinessObjects Environment dialog window in MetaMiner Administrator. You cannot modify this description in MetaMiner Client.