[David Peterson]

Hi,

1. I have a small project within a rather large database. I’d like to just diagram the ER of the tables related to my project and not the entire database. It would be nice to just select the table names to create ER from the directory view, right click and select create ER diagram which would only draw my tables.

2. Since this feature is lacking, I tried to go through the massive quantity of tables and do ‘Hide Details’ on every table that I’m not using in my project, but this results in the ER connectors not connecting. They just point to the empty space where the detailed table was. If there was a way to refresh the page whereby the tool would properly reconnect the arrows and shrink all of the empty space down (from hidden tables), this would suffice in leiu of #1, but I suspect that you’ll want to clean this up eventually anyway.

Thanks.

[David Peterson]

3. I’ve also noted that I cannot do a “save-as” on my changes. After hiding details on all of the tables not related to my project, I wanted to save this file as a .mer with my project name on it. I can only save it as the databasename.mer.

[Brian Fernandes]

Dave,

1) Selective ER diagram generation is on our list of TODOs, it will probably be present in MyEclipse 5.0

2) Yes, that is something we would want to clean up. I’ll file it and we’ll try and get that fixed soon. It does work as expected if you use the toggle buttons on the top right of each table.
Might I suggest selecting a bunch of tables and clicking hide details to minimize them all at one go. You could then leave them selected and move the entire group by a really small amount and the layout algorithm will kick in and correct the routing.

3) I’ll see what we can do on the Save As front, it was never really implemented for the ER designer.

Thank you for your feedback, we welcome further suggestions if you have any.
Best,
Brian.

[john2kin]

hi…
i am new here and thanks for the detailed help .. i really appreciate that 🙂

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