Supporting completion of Entity

Information system is becoming more and more complex and so the database design is unavoidably becoming more complex than before. The Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) will become impossible to read if modeler shows all entities and relationships in single diagram. Modeler can build context based ERD in Visual Paradigm modeling environment. The context based diagram only show portion of entities and relationships which are related to the context. Modeler can show one entity in two diagrams (shared model) and changes of the entities will be visualized in two diagrams. Modeler can drag and drop entity from Model Explorer to ERD to create shared model.

In VP Suite 4.0 SP1, Visual Paradigm introduce new completion support for shared model usage. Let's show you how entity completion works.

Drawing ERD with entity completion

1.	There are a few entities created in the project.
2.	Creating new Entity Relationship Diagram.
3.	Selecting Entity in palette.
4.	Creating Entity.
5.	Input "In" in name, select "Inspector" in the popup menu and press Enter.
6.	Inspector entity created.

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