Diagram Editor Settings

You can personalize regarding with which items to display in diagram. You can display various items like table name, column name, type, and so on depending on the purpose. More than that, you can directly edit those displayed items.

Basic Presets

You can use preset view configurations.

• [ eXERD Default ] Press ▼ button on toolbar and select eXERD Default.

  eXERD Default preset is a basic composition applied when creating .erd file. It sets to display column names, domain, and datatype.

  

• [ Entity ] Press ▼ button on toolbar and select Entity .

  This mode is a preset that displays only column names and domains, so it is useful for initial logical modeling.

  

• [ E-R Outline ] Press ▼ button on toolbar and select E-R Outline.

  This mode displays only table names and annotations, so you can easily grasp whole E-R.

  

• [ Logical/Physical ] Press ▼ button on toolbar and select Logical/Physical.

  This mode simultaneously provides logical/physical names to be editable.

  

Table Header Display

You can set whether to display header of the columns or not cells.

• Select Table Header Visible on toolbar. You can toggle the selection.

  

• You can change the order of the column by dragging the selected column header in left or right direction.

  

Settings Using the Menu

You can easily set whether to display various informations of columns or not.

• Select ▼ button on toolbar and sub-menu of Show Columns.

  

Detail Setting and Creating Preset

You can set additional detail items or apply your preset to other diagrams.

• On clicking Column Filter button, dialogue window is popped up.

  

• You can set how to display table names, annotations and cells.

  

• You can rename and save your preset.

  

• New preset appears on menu, and can be easily applied to other diagrams.