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Svend Erik Nygaard

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No dockable window with table columns?
« on: December 11, 2018, 12:19:39 am »
I want to have a docked window with table columns - just like the docked window with class attributes, which synchronizes itself to selecting an attribute in a diagram or in the project browser.
Is that not possible? (EA 14, 1427)

Also: in a class on a diagram I can add an attribute with shift+cntrl+F9  - is there no similar function for table columns?


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Re: No dockable window with table columns?
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2018, 09:53:51 pm »
The Database Builder...

Thanks, but  :( the Database Builder does not react to select a column on a diagram "like the docked window with class attributes, which synchronizes itself to selecting an attribute in a diagram or in the project browser".
… at least, I haven't managed to get it to do that.
With the Database Builder, I have to select Database + select table + select column each time - this is prohibitively tedious and disturbing for the meeting partiipants, when I'm sitting with business people (data stewards, BI analytics, etc.) mapping their implementation views (DB,...) to the conceptual/logical model which carries all the business definitions)
Besides that, the Database Builder takes up an awful lot of screen real estate for that purpose - when the meetings 'fix point' is a diagram.
Then I'm better off using the columns and constraints window - it's just not dockable, which makes it very disturbing in the meeting context, having to pop it up each time.

 
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