What is a shortcut?

A shortcut, which resides in your personal catalog (My Catalog), is a link to a particular Master Catalog report object. You can think of a shortcut acting like a Bookmark in Netscape or a Favorite in Internet Explorer does - it links you directly to the location of something. Shortcuts enable you to organize within your own catalog listings of report objects to which you have access.

You create a shortcut by going to Master Catalog in the main menu and selecting the Shortcut Creation submenu. When you select a report object, the shortcut will be automatically created. By default, all new shortcuts are placed in your New Shortcuts folder within My Catalog, but you have the option of moving the shortcut to a different folder of your personal catalog after it is created.