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 Project table may contain columns for project, manager and client.

Full Path

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

• Project description_Description
• Project number_Number
• Manager_Number
• Client_Person_Firstname_Name
• Client_Person_Surname_Name

Compressed Path

The same, but removing repeating words.

• Project description
• Project number
• Manager_Number
• Client_Person_Firstname
• Client_Person_Surname

Relevant Path

The relevant path will start with the first word, remove repeating words, and attempt to leave out intermediate words.

• Project description
• Project number
• Manager_Number
• Client_Firstname
• Client_Surname

Unique Tail

After deduplicating words, this option will start building column names starting at the tail end of the full path and injecting more if the result is not yet unique.

• Description
• Project number
• Manager_Number
• Firstname
• Surname

Unique Path

This will probably result in the most informative and shortest column names possible. Combining the start and only add secondary information if needed.

• description
• number
• Manager
• Client_Person_Firstname
• Client_Person_Surname

ObjectType (legacy)

• Project description
• Project number
• Manager
• Client1
• Client2

LabelType (legacy)

• Description
• Number1
• Number2
• Name3
• Name4