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Description suggestions

Dataedo suggests texts for column descriptions, titles, or text custom fields based on texts from other columns.

Show suggestions for field

You may notice that some text fields have a blue marker in the right upper corner:

description suggestions icon

To show a list of suggestions:

  1. Right-click on the field or
  2. While in the field press Shift + F2

This will open a context menu where suggestions will be in the block on top of the menu.

description suggestions

To use a suggestion:

  1. Click it or
  2. Select it with arrow keys and confirm with the enter key

The suggestion list includes suggestions with their number of occurrences.

Suggestions are displayed for empty and non-empty fields. Dataedo doesn't suggest text that is already entered in the field.

Enable suggestions

Suggestions are by default enabled. If disabled, you can turn this feature on by clicking the following button:

show suggestions

Disable suggestions

Finding suggestions for each field in the form may use your repository server resources and for large repositories take significant time. You can always switch off suggestions with the same button:

hide suggestions