Column Names

Fact Oriented Modeling requires all fact types to be uniquely named. When a FOM Model is transformed towards a logical model, or implementation, the column names may become too long and elaborate. Therefor CaseTalk and the Viewer allow column names to be formatted using naming conventions.

A generated employee table may contain columns for first name and last name, originating from a person fact type.

Full Path

The full path will name the full paths from the very first role to the final label type.

• Employee_Person_PersonID
• Employee_Person_PersonFirstName_FirstName
• Employee_Person_PersonLastName_LastName

Relevant Path

The relevant path setting will skip intermediate fact types names. Naming the first and complimenting that with a unique tail.

• Employee_PersonID
• Employee_PersonFirstName_FirstName
• Employee_PersonLastName_LastName

Compressed Path

This compressed path setting starts with the full paths, and then removes repetitive redundant names from it.

• Employee_PersonID
• Employee_PersonFirstName
• Employee_PersonFirstName

Unique Tail

The unique tail setting starts from the label type and work it's way to the table name. Inserting parts until all column names are unique.

• PersonID
• FirstName
• LastName

Unique Path

When applied to the Employee Table, the relevant path would show that table. This variant will attempt to skip the table name, resulting in this list of columns. If this fails for some reason, the table name still may be inserted at the start.

• PersonID
• PersonFirstName_FirstName
• PersonLastName_LastName