Select tables in ERD that makes sense

Feature Suggestions
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Hello there.

I am using VP to reverse engineer a database, so the ERDs I get are quite a mess (lots of tables, overlapping relationships etc).

It would be nice if I could select one table, right click, and have an option to select the related tables.

It should be already there, actually, it is really simple and useful.

Thanks!

Vassilios

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HI Vassilios,

  • Suppose this is your ERD, and you want to see only A and its related entities:

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  • Then just select A and copy it (Ctrl-C), create another ERD and paste it (Ctrl-V).

  • You see an ‘a’ indicator appears, it means the entity A now has multiple views, and the just pasted entity A is an auxiliary view.

  • Mouse over the entity, you would see the “Visualize Related Model Element” resource. Click on it.

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  • It analyses and reports which model elements are related to entity A, just select those you interested and click “Visualize”.

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  • And as what it promises, it visualizes them on the diagram.

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I hope this method would solve your problem.

Cheers,

Antony.