Customizing the database visual design tool

In UML visualization, you can configure default settings for database Unified Modeling Language (UML) visualization and visual design.

You can customize the default settings for visibility styles and icons, and showing attribute and operation compartments and parent names. It is useful to show parent names, for example, when you need to know a database’s containing project.

Setting the default for showing parent names
In UML visualization, you can set the default for classifiers to show parent names when you create new class diagrams or add classifiers to existing ones.

Setting the default for showing operation signatures
In UML visualization, you can set the default for classifiers to show operation signatures when you create new class diagrams or add classifiers to existing ones.

Changing the default for showing attribute and operation compartments
In UML visualization, you can change the default so that attribute and operation compartments do not appear when you add classifiers to a class diagram.

Changing the default visibility style for attributes and operations
In UML visualization, you can change the default visibility style for attributes and operations that appears when you create new class diagrams or add classifiers to existing ones.

 

Parent topic

Examining database applications

 

Related concepts

IE and IDEF1X notation diagrams

 

Related tasks

Creating database diagrams
Examining data objects
Populating diagrams with database elements