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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 31, 2007, 07:36:56 am

Title: IDEA: Default to 'Name Only' for DM items
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on October 31, 2007, 07:36:56 am

In the browser and in other places, the default presentation mode for parameters is Type Only.  Other options include:  Name and Type or Name Only.

For Data Modelling items (and in particular, DM Diagrams) it makes more sense (and I believe is more useful to default to Name Only.  This is particularly true in the browser.

This is because (unlike normal class or OO operations), we aren't interested in the operation signatures, but the name of the parameters representing the appropriate columns.

Paolo

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Title: Re: IDEA: Default to 'Name Only' for DM items
Post by: «Midnight» on October 31, 2007, 10:42:38 am

Quite true.

This is another side effect inherited from the logical diagram ancestry of data models. YA reason to give data models their own 'engine.'