CDM User Guide
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- PowerDesigner CDM User's Guide
- Contents
- About This Manual
- Conceptual Data Model Basics
- Using Business Rules in a CDM
- Building Conceptual Data Models
- Defining data items in a CDM
- Defining domains in a CDM
- Defining entities in a CDM
- Defining entity attributes in a CDM
- Defining identifiers in a CDM
- Defining relationships in a CDM
- Relationship properties
- Creating a relationship
- Creating a reflexive relationship
- Modifying relationship properties
- Defining a code option for relationships
- Defining cardinality for relationships
- Defining a mandatory relationship
- Defining a dependent relationship
- Defining a dominant relationship
- Changing a relationship into an associative entity
- Creating an associative entity using the Change to Entity Wizard
- Sorting the list of relationships
- Relationship examples
- Modifying the relationship display preferences
- Modifying a relationship graphically
- Defining associations in a CDM
- Association properties in CDM
- Association link properties
- Creating an association in a CDM
- Creating an association link
- Creating a reflexive association in a CDM
- Defining cardinality for an association link
- Defining a dependent association in a CDM
- Changing an association into an associative entity
- Creating an association attribute
- Modifying the association display preferences in a CDM
- Modifying the association link display preferences
- Defining inheritances in a CDM
- Inheritance properties
- Creating an inheritance link
- Adding a child entity to an inheritance link
- Making inheritance links mutually exclusive
- Generation mode properties
- Defining generation mode
- Specifying entity attribute properties
- Defining a specifying entity attribute
- Modifying the inheritance display preferences
- Defining check parameters in a CDM
- Working with Conceptual Data Models
- Checking a CDM
- Object parameters verified by Check model
- Business Rule check in a CDM
- Package check
- Domain check
- Data item check
- Entity check
- Entity attribute check
- Entity identifier check
- Relationship check
- Association check
- Association name and code uniqueness
- Association has at least two links
- Association has two links with identifier link
- Association has no more than one identifier link
- Absence of properties with identifier links
- Bijective association between two entities
- Maximum cardinality links
- Reflexive identifier links
- Name unicity constraint between many-to-many associations and entities
- Inheritance check
- File object check
- Replication check
- Extended object check
- Extended link check
- Opening a PAM into a CDM
- Generating from a Conceptual Data Model
- CDM Glossary
- Index