On 4-Oct-07, at 12:51 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> Several people have missed this, but use the relationship wizard in
> Entity Modeler. It's my favorite part of the app and it's
> unfortunately slightly hidden (I'll have to work on that). Select
> two entities in the outline and click Add Relationship. Rather
> than just dropping a default named relationship in the
> relationships view, it will open the relationship wizard:
Yeah, when I discovered this, it was like... "Oh! ...complaints all
gone..."
> You can make to-one, to-many, many-to-many, optionally flatten,
> have it create the join attributes for you, the works. You don't
> have to fiddle around with "make the to-one attribute, set its
> prototype, set its name, create a relationship, pick the model,
> pick the entity, add the join, blbahbahblahbalhba". To me, this
> dialog alone makes Entity Modeler completely worth the money you
> paid for it :)
I have to argue with you on this point.
I think Entity Modeler is only worth half what I paid for it
... or maybe double. :-)
;david
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