Faster Entry of Attributes/Operations

[eAndy]

Please understand that I love the product but have a suggestion.

It would be great to be able to quickly dump in a bunch of attributes/operations without having to use the mouse.

The interface is a bit clumsy and requires you to use the mouse and multiple operations to complete something as adding an attribute as a property.

I'd be SOOO much more productive if I could add a new attribute and expose it as a property with one single operation that didn't require me to click or answer popups.

[thomaskilian]

You mean this: http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=suggestions;action=display;num=1075445984?

[eAndy]

well, I was thinking something like this would allow you to just blast stuff in. they'd need to have configurable defaults.

Let me have drop downs and check boxes for the 80% of what I do/need. As I tab past the last column add new row (like tables in word). Don't make me click add when more than likely I'm going to.



If I'm sitting with someone and using the tool to capture info I can't be doing 6 clicks per attribute. That'll drive me nuts. Let me brain dump. If I need to tweak something I'll come back to it. But more than likely it will be the exception.

[thomaskilian]

Looks pretty much like something for the automation interface. I also could think of entering these data into Excel and then throw it into the model.

[Rob_M]

I find that forward engineering to a tmp file, then editing with gvim (wayyyy faster than emacs   ) then reverse engineering is faster than using this interface.

Rob