Sailing the boundless RG – “Here there be dragons”
If you use Anchor Buoy design methods and find yourself building endless TOs just because you like the way they look, then you’ve probably already devised a number of tricks and rules to keep your sanity and productivity alive any time you need to venture into the unknown reaches of your relationship graph.
My own tactics for getting to my destination on the RG have traditionally resembled those of the early explorers:
- Stay near land and in sight of known landmarks.
- Make sure you know which way is north
- Have an up-to-date map
- bring plenty of oranges.
- Beware the twisted squid (a prehistoric throwback to ancient times known to trap sailors and drive them mad)
Of course, most developers understand that you can just key ahead to the right table. The only problem is that if, like me, you tend to prefix the daylights out of your TOs (AR__PPPL_MISC__NW_TC_BS_BFD_PrsPhoneDetail), then keying ahead starts to break down as soon as you hit your first underscore. Enter the lighthouse:
The lighthouse (shown here in pink) is just a table occurrence of an out-of-the-way table ( PS: You can just as easily do a lighthouse with a text box, but I like the single-line quality of a TO). In my case, I prefix these with a simple “z” and then a name for the particular constellation of TOs that I want to be able to target. In this case, a TO that handles the design of a scheduling function in my solution can be reached by simply typing “zsche…”. Note that when you key to your lighthouse, it will end up at the bottom right of your screen, so place it at the southeast end of your TOs.
Ahoy.
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