Viewer: 2/Options

Options

The Viewer has several options which influence the visual properties of the available diagrams.

General

Display

• Drop shadow: Turn on of off the shadowing of symbols drawn.
• Show grid: Toggle the grid on of off
• Hot Tracking: Moving the mouse will highlight symbols when hovered. Also a color may be set for this highlighting

Corner Style

• Straight lines
• Bezier
• Curved

Auto-save Diagram

Upon saving the diagram file, a bitmap can be saved as well in various formats.

Relational

• Primary Keys: Toggle primary key symbols on or off
• Columns: Toggle the column information on or off
• Foreign Keys: Toggle the foreign key indications on or off (Note: once a fk relation is drawn, the columns are hidden, even when turned on)
• Data Types: Toggle the datatype information on or off

• Weak Tables: Tables where the primary key contains foreign keys the edges are drawn rounded.
• Weak Relations: Foreign keys which are not mandatory are drawn with a dotted line.
• Subtypes: Child tables can contain a subtype of a parent table, a small arc is drawn at the side of the parent table.

• Type Expressions can be turned on or off
• Examples Expressions can be turned on or off, a maximum number of examples can be specified, and whether incomplete examples are shown.

• Names: The naming of columns can be tweaked to different conventions. (Note: if a model is transformed using a legacy mode, it cannot be altered here.) The different options are: Full Path; Relevant Path; Compressed Path; Unique Tail.

UML

• Properties: Toggle the properties on or off
• Methods: Toggle the methods on or off
• Object Type Expressions: Toggle partial verbalizations on or off

Misc

• Show a warning dialog to reflect the IG being newer then the transformed IGG file
• Show a warning to indicate the IG is missing when an IGG is opened
• Show a warning to indicate a missing IGG when the IG is opened