Advantages of Shortcuts in Informatica

• Suppose if we are using multiple copies of an object in different mappings, if we need to modify the object like changing data type or length etc , we need to edit each copy of the object to obtain the same results but if we have a shortcuts, all shortcuts immediately inherit the changes we make.
• We can restrict the users to incorporate the shortcuts instead of developing their own objects independently.
• We can save the space in repository by using shortcuts to an object instead of creating multiple copies in different folders/repositories.