If you’re not following George McGeachie at Metadata Junkie, you should be. George has just completed a book with Steve Hoberman, “Data Modeling Made Simple with PowerDesigner“. We had Steve in to do modeling training a few years ago and he was working mostly with ERWin at the time, so I’m glad to see he’s … Continue reading
Another interesting post on the PowerDesigner group today. Mark wanted to add seed data to the after script on a table, which is fairly common (we do it all the time); but with a brilliant twist. The goal is to store the seed data script in an external file and have it end up in … Continue reading
Today’s post is on selections. Selections are a great way to script changes to multiple objects and a great way to make your custom methods more flexible. Selections are just what they sound like, a group of objects, placed into a collection for processing. Let’s jump right in with a simple example: Dim mySel Set … Continue reading
I’m in the process of upgrading some of my xem files and one of the things I’m doing a lot of is using ExecuteCustomMethod to simplify both my global script library and a lot of my code. Many of the functions I write end up being accessible in the context menu both for the base … Continue reading