Preferences and Shortcuts¶

Reference for the MetaMiner Client (MMC) Preferences dialog, the keyboard shortcuts, and where the client keeps its settings, logs and sign-in data.

Preferences¶

Open File > Preferences... (Ctrl+P). Settings are saved per Windows user on this computer.

Image of the Preferences dialog showing the Theme, Display, Users, Diff & Compare, Export & Limits and Dialog Dismissal Confirmations sections

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Section	Setting	Default	What it does
Theme	Light / Dark	Light	Color theme. Takes effect after you restart the client.
Display	Show Memory Bar (requires restart)	On	Shows client memory use in the status bar
Display	Expand Filter Pane on Startup	On	Opens the filter pane of each tab when the client starts
Display	Show Object Tooltips	Off	Shows a summary tooltip when you hover over an item
Display	Hide Empty Environments on Filtering	On	Hides environment rows that have no match for the active filters
Display	Use modern impact graph (beta)	Off	Opens impact analysis in the newer graph view. Reopen the graph to apply. See Impact Analysis.
Users	Use Display Names for Users	On	Shows users as display name plus user name. Panels already open keep the old format until reopened.
Export & Limits	CSV Export Separator:	`,`	Separator for CSV exports. Type `\t` for a tab.
Export & Limits	Max Security Rows:	`1000`	Maximum number of items the Explore Security action collects (up to 4 digits)
Dialog Dismissal Confirmations	Confirm Close SQL Sheet	On	Asks before closing a Meta Query SQL sheet
Dialog Dismissal Confirmations	Confirm Exit	On	Asks before closing the client
Dialog Dismissal Confirmations	Show Data Integrity	On	Shows the data integrity hint

The Show All User Group, Diff & Compare and Show Limited Webi Metadata Warning settings apply to Tableau and SAP BusinessObjects features and have no effect in a Power BI-only installation.

The confirmation boxes switch back on prompts you dismissed with Do not ask again.

Keyboard shortcuts¶

Application¶

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl`+`M`	Connection Manager
`Ctrl`+`K`	Forget Credentials
`Ctrl`+`P`	Preferences
`Ctrl`+`L`	Open MetaMiner Log Folder
`Ctrl`+`Q`	Quit
`F1`	Context Help
`F5`	Reload all data from the server

Find and filter¶

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl`+`F`	Quick Search Control (jump to the search box of the current tab)
`Ctrl`+`E`	Show or hide the filter pane
`Ctrl`+`R`	Reset All Filters

Trees¶

Shortcut	Action
`Alt`+`Enter`	Properties... of the selected item

Meta Query¶

Shortcut	Action
`F9`	Run the first query, or the selected part of the script
`F3`	Next row (same column)
`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`H`	SQL History
`Ctrl`+`Space`	Auto-complete table and column names in the SQL editor

On macOS, use Cmd in place of Ctrl.

Language¶

Choose File > Choose Language... to switch between English and French. Restart the client to apply the change everywhere.

Where the client keeps its files¶

On Windows the client stores per-user files under %APPDATA%\MetaMiner\.

Path	Content
`config\.metaMinerPreferences`	Preferences, last server host and port, reconnect on startup
`config\.metaMinerHistory`	Window layout, server history, last loaded environments, saved MetaMiner credentials (encrypted)
`auth\pbi-token-cache.bin`	Saved Microsoft sign-ins from browser sign-in, encrypted with Windows for your Windows account; never passwords
`QueryHistory\`	Meta Query SQL history, per server and user
`logs\client.log`	Client log. Open it with File > Open MetaMiner Log.

File > Forget Credentials... removes the saved MetaMiner user name and password. It does not remove saved Microsoft sign-ins. To remove those, right-click the environment list in the Connection Manager and choose Sign out of all Power BI environments, or click Sign out in the Power BI sign-in dialog.

Client startup options that your administrator sets, such as Meta Query result size limits, are listed in Meta Query.