You could write a simple EOModel->GraphViz WOApp. Shouldn't be too
hard and it spares you the layout problem. Make a page where you can
select the entities in question or whatever.
This one for example looks mostly like an ER diagram:
http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery/directed/datastruct.html
Cheers, Anjo
Am 02.12.2009 um 15:50 schrieb David Avendasora:
> Hmm.
>
> You are right. Unfortunately I don't see a diagram view being added
> to Entity Modeler, unless you write it, or pay someone to. You could
> always contact Omni and see if there is a way to get at the parsing
> rules that OmniGraffle uses so you could modify them to do what you
> want.
>
> Dave
>
> On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Robert Huber..7r wrote:
>
>> Dave
>>
>> Thanks for the tip, I don't see the OmniGraffle the right tool for
>> the job. The diagram is not very readable, as for example there is
>> no clear separation between the attributes and realtionship names,
>> the relationship names are not drawn on the relationship as in
>> EOModeler, and no info about the attribute itself in the diagram,
>> just the name, in general, it's a shrinked down display of what
>> EOModeler offers. I mean, it's at least something, but in my
>> opinion not really a replacement for the missing diagram view, and
>> of course, completely out of the Entity Modeler's context.
>>
>> Thanks and best regards, Robert
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02.12.2009, at 15:18, David Avendasora wrote:
>>
>>> OmniGraffle (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/)
>>> will do it. Just open the .eomodled file with it and it will
>>> automatically turn it into a diagram. Sweeeeeeeet.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Robert Huber..7r wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> I am using the Entity Modeler (in Eclipse) for the design of the
>>>> database part of our projects. As we absolutely need to print out
>>>> in diagram view the entity model, we keep a Mac with Mac OS X
>>>> 10.4 and the EOModeler, just to (open and) print the diagram.
>>>> Now I made in the Entity Modeler 2 subclasses from an entity
>>>> (with the menu Subclass Entity) and as a consequence, can't open
>>>> the model in the EOModeler any more. I checked everything to make
>>>> sure there is no error somewhere and think everything is ok, but
>>>> I get the error message:
>>>>
>>>> Alert
>>>>
>>>> An error occurred while opening "/Users/robert/Desktop/
>>>> Hades.eomodeld".
>>>>
>>>> Exception: NSInvalidArgumentException
>>>> Reason: Unable to read /Users/robert/Desktop/Hades.eomodeld/
>>>> index.eomodeld
>>>>
>>>> I really hope this can be corrected, so we still can open the
>>>> model in the EOModeler.
>>>> Can anyone from the WOLips team comment please, when there will
>>>> be a diagram view in Entity Modeler available? I very very much
>>>> hope there will be one some time, as we have no idea how to
>>>> discuss and review the model without a printout on paper (ca. 2 x
>>>> 3 meter in size for the big models). It's the only view which
>>>> allows to verify the model (some of them with more than 100
>>>> entities) in a team of developers.
>>>> How are others handling this situation? I would love to know?
>>>> Of course we would love to abandon the EOModeler, but we can't
>>>> because of the reason described above.
>>>>
>>>> Thansk and best regards, Robert
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> David Avendasora
>>> Senior Software Engineer
>>> K12, Inc.
>>>
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> David Avendasora
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> K12, Inc.
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