Author Topic: Show Hide for more associations in a diagram  (Read 2071 times)

Pierre169

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Show Hide for more associations in a diagram
« on: February 26, 2008, 12:23:41 am »
Hi,
after generating a lot of database diagrams by importing existing DDL, I want to get rid of the cumbersome association labels (= I need to see the links, but as link between TableA and TableB always is named like FK_TableA_TableB on TableA_ID = TableA_ID, the labels are uninformative  :( and must disappear)
I could not find how to do that, except by selecting all links, one by one, and set visibilitgy / hide all labels. 3 clicks and 3 drag per link, times ~ 700 links across 50 diagrams, this is not the right way to do it :'( !
does anybody out there know how I can select all associations in a diagram, and hide all labels for all those associations at once?

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Re: Show Hide for more associations in a diagram
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2008, 12:56:13 am »
We've often asked for some kind of default setting - or the control thereof to be more accurate - on label visibility. This would apply to newly created labels as well, perhaps by having additional options on code and database import and such. [Perhaps an Advanced button with a small dialog for these options, with the default set globally by a Tools | Options dialog page. There could also be project-level defaults.]

Why not make the suggestion to Sparx. Perhaps another expression of interest will move this up on the priority list.

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Re: Show Hide for more associations in a diagram
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2008, 01:24:30 am »
Thank you,

now I know that I should not search any more for some hidden option somewhere :( , and I will see if writing an addin to process all association labels visibility in a diagram is possible  :-/.

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Re: Show Hide for all associations in diagram - Sp
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2008, 02:51:40 am »
Solved :D

I did not need to write the add-in myself, as someone else did it before: http://www.codeplex.com/eautils/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=7438

Just click add-in / spead / all labels hide  :)

Big thanks to Mike Hanson at codeplex for his SpEAd useful utilities

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Re: Show Hide for more associations in a diagram
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2008, 07:17:43 am »
And thanks to you Pierre, for reminding us here!
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