Logical View - Hide Data Type?

[JulianH]

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

[jeshaw2]

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.

[JulianH]

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
-----
Name: NVARCHAR2
Postal Code : LONG
......

^--- that's what the table looks right now.

I want the table to look like this:

CITY
-----
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

[thomaskilian]

You can also hide visibility by using different stereotypes.

[Bruno.Cossi]

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

[JulianH]

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

[Bruno.Cossi]

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

[JulianH]

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

[jeshaw2]

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.

[Bruno.Cossi]

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.