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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Stop Diagram Filters being user specific and..

« on: August 10, 2015, 10:50:58 pm »

I think that my use case at http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1438719543 is consistent with the idea of reusable filters, perhaps across users, not as a sticky or forced feature, but perhaps an option in a picklist.  If a model has 5 or 10 logical foci, then it might be good to be able to define those as reusable views.

Briefly, my workaround now, when printing a portion of a model is to copy as an image and use a program with a Print to Fit function.                                                    

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General Board / Re: Logical Model - Easy Filtering of

« on: August 05, 2015, 10:12:53 pm »

Thanks very much, Simon.  You replied to my email as well, and I am pasting some more of your helpful explanation and a workaround :

"Unfortunately it's not possible to display and print a specific element and all its related elements as you described. I will submit a feature request on your behalf so that this is considered for implementation in a future release.
 
Currently the closest option would be to manually select the element and it's related elements, then Copy to the clipboard using the right click "Copy" option. You can then paste into an image editor and Print the image.
"

I also found that Excel's ability to print to fit makes it an easy way to get decent printed output.

If any other users would like to support this feature, unless there's some other mechanism, I'd appreciate some support for the idea in this thread.

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General Board / Logical Model - Easy Filtering of "related only"?

« on: August 05, 2015, 06:19:03 am »

Is there some way to restrict a Logical Model  view to only the objects related to a specific object?  My database has some 70 objects, but I only want to generate a quick print of the 8 or 9 tables in one logical "corner", and get on with preparing to ETL it...Wouldn’t that be a great feature, if not?  I was thinking of a right click option like Related Only...
Thanks for reading.