Managing document interfaces in Toad for Oracle

Hello, folks. My name is Robert Pound, and I am a product technologist for Quest. In today's video, we're going to discuss single and multiple document interfaces in Toad for Oracle. So onscreen, I have an example of a single document interface setup in Toad for Oracle. This is the look and feel to where you can detach your documents and have them on multiple screens or on a single screen. Obviously for this demo, I only have a single screen to show, but if you had multiple monitors, you can move these different documents to different monitors and work on them, or you can maximize the real estate for any single document, such as the Schema Browser. So how do we get here? We'll come up to the top, Under View, and choose Toad Options. And then under the General tab, we have the application style. So multiple document view is what you're used to with most traditional applications. Toad for Oracle comes out of the box in this application style. Currently, we're in single document interface. So that's what we see here with these different documents. So let me go ahead and switch back to multi-document real quick. And click Apply. And when you apply changes for this, it'll ask you to restart. So make sure you're at a point where you can restart. I'm going to go ahead and restart now. And I'm going to go ahead and reconnect. So here in multi-document view, we have access to everything in a single document or single view. But for instance, if I was working on this editor and I wanted to move it over to another monitor, which we'll use this space for another monitor, I can right click on the Editor tab in the tool and choose Pop-out Window. This will give me all the real estate of the monitor, or the secondary monitor in the case of a dual monitor. And I can continue working on my code. And for instance, if I open up a database browser, for instance, now I can look at database browser in one monitor and look at the editor in another. And if I wanted to bring this back in, I can right click on the frame and choose Pop-in Window and it'll bring it back to the tool. So hopefully this helped you understand a little bit more about the different application styles in Toad for Oracle, and how you can utilize more space for a single document. For more information on this or other topics, you can check out the Help file. It has a wide range of content to help you understand the tool. You can also check out the community-driven innovation going on at www.toadworld, selecting the Community tab. For more information on this product, visit www.quest.com/products/toad-for-oracle. Thank you, and have a great day.