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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: JulianH on November 06, 2005, 01:39:22 am
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Hi There. I'm currently modelling a database wirh EA. Actually, right now, I'm modelling an ERD with the Logical View "Feature".
I always inserted a data type with every attribute in a table, but now I want the chance to hide the data types (so that there are only the names of the attribute in every table visible - I don't need any data type in an erd - that's overhead ;) ) I mean, I want the data types stored for every attribute, but I don't want them visible in the model.
How can I do this?
Julian
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Julian;
Right click on the diagram element representing the table. Select Features -> Feature Visibility Then in the Attribute Visibility panel, uncheck "all".
Hope this is what you wanted.
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Julian;
Right click on the diagram element representing the table. Select Features -> Feature Visibility Then in the Attribute Visibility panel, uncheck "all".
Hope this is what you wanted.
Hi jeshaw2.
It's not exactly what I wanted.
I will explain it more in detail:
- I have a table (lets say: City)
- There are attributes (lets say: Name, PostalCode, ..)
- This attributes have data types (Name has NVARCHAR2, PostalCode ..lets say LONG).
-->
CITY
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Name: NVARCHAR2
Postal Code : LONG
......
^--- that's what the table looks right now.
I want the table to look like this:
CITY
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NAME
Postal Code
......
See the difference? There should be no more data types :) I don't want to delete the data types for every attribute manually, because I need them afterwards. But I want to exclude them from being shown :) Is there a chance to do so?
Julian
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You can also hide visibility by using different stereotypes.
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That won't help, Julian does not want to hide the attributes altogether, only their data types. I think there was a discussionabout this a while back with the conclusion that that was not possible, but that has a been a while back and EA has evolved since then. Not sure if it can do this though :-)
Bruno
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That won't help, Julian does not want to hide the attributes altogether, only their data types. I think there was a discussionabout this a while back with the conclusion that that was not possible, but that has a been a while back and EA has evolved since then. Not sure if it can do this though :-)
Bruno
Hi Bruno.
I didn't find a menu entry that can do that. Maybe I didn't look that much, but there was no feature that could hide the "Attribute Domains".
Julian
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Hi Julian,
I think you are right, this probably can't be done with the current version of EA. Definitely worth submitting as a feature request though!
Bruno
Hi Bruno.
I didn't find a menu entry that can do that. Maybe I didn't look that much, but there was no feature that could hide the "Attribute Domains".
Julian
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Hi Julian,
I think you are right, this probably can't be done with the current version of EA. Definitely worth submitting as a feature request though!
Bruno
Hi Bruno. Yes, this would be fine. It can't be a big deal for the developers to implement this feature. But I think it would be a great advance for all of the users, because sometimes everybody needs this feature :)
(i guess)
Julian
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When you add an attribute to a class, in the Properties window you can see the type field. In my version of EA (771), a default type of "int" is entered. Delete the value in that text box and it won't show on the diagram.
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Hi,
the point is not "not to have a data type" but to have a data type, but not display it on the diagram.
Bruno
When you add an attribute to a class, in the Properties window you can see the type field. In my version of EA (771), a default type of "int" is entered. Delete the value in that text box and it won't show on the diagram.