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Diagrams Features
You can find more detailed information under the help for each menu in addition to the Create Diagram Dialog Help.
Key Featuring
- Design database schema without any changes in the database structure:
- Create new objects;
- Change existed object;
- Mark existed objects to delete.
- Synchronize diagram with database simply by applying changes.
- Reverse engineering.
- Design of every kind of objects, that presents in database.
- Design local database.
- Design server database.
- Share diagrams for several users.
- Make great visual presentation of the database schema.
- Use automatic layout to place objects.
- Use grid and guides to build coherent composition of objects.
- Change colors of objects.
- Add labels, comments, and pictures to the diagram.
Manipulations with Objects
- creating all supported objects of database
- dropping all supported objects of database
- editing all supported objects of database
- renaming objects
- changing properties
- adding child objects
- removing child objects
- changing properties of child objects
- browsing sql definition of the object
Diagram Properties
- ability to change the name of diagram
- Gamma – The contrast of diagram object colors
- Light
- Normal
- Dark
- Control – The visual properties of diagram items.
- Color – The color of control.
- Style – The style of diagram objects
- Gradient
- GradientH
- GradientV
- Plain
- Rounded
- Rounded Filled
- Simple
- Simple Colored
- Squared
- Squared Filled
- Wide
- Visual
- Workbench
- Xcode
- Style Links – The style of displaying links.
- Default – links are shown in Crow's Foot notation.
- Arrows – links are shown as arrows.
- Chen – links are shown in Chen notation.
- Workbench – links are shown in Workbench style.
- highlight changes
- show all children
- show grid
- show guidelines
- use grid (snap to grid)
Common Actions
- save all changes to the file
- apply all changes to the database
- discard all changes
- find objects on the diagram
Manipulations with Diagrams
- open a browser of diagrams
- create a new diagram
- open a diagram
- open a recent diagram
- to switch between opened diagrams
Custom Features
- adding comment(s) to the diagram
- adding label(s) to the diagram
- adding picture(s) to the diagram
- zooming
- navigator
- history of changes