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Rearranging ERDs
Moving Tables
To move tables around in the ERD, click on the header and drag the table. There are also Align options in the toolbar The toolbar has
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If a table has a lot of attributes that you do not need to see, collapse the list to show only the table's primary and foreign keys.
- Either right-click on a table and select Hide attributes or Show attributes
- Or double-click on the table header.
To select multiple tables, click-drag to draw a square around them. PhixFlow selects the tables when you release the drag.
Highlighting Relationships
If you want to To highlight the relationships that affect a table, click the table to select it.
- Blue lines indicate relationships to a foreign key in the selected table.
- Green lines indicate relationships from the primary key in the selected table.
The following screenshot shows the Teacher table is selected:
Bending Relationship Lines
By default, relationships are straight lines, but you can change them to have angles:
- Click on a relationship line to add an angle point, which appears as a blue dot; see the screenshot on the left.
- Move the mouse pointer over the blue dot. It changes to a four-way arrow to indicate you can drag.
- Drag the point to the position you require.
To remove an unwanted angle, right-click the blue dot and select Remove Point; see the screenshots below:
Hover your mouse pointer overan angle to see the blue angle point
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