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Properties

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Basic Settings

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Name

The name for the ERD.

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Toolbars and Popup Menus

ERD Toolbar

The toolbar is at the top of the canvas. Hover your mouse pointer over the toolbar to see a tooltip.

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To create a new table, drag the icon from the toolbar onto the canvas.

To add an existing table, click to list the tables available in the repository. Drag a table from the list into the ERD canvas.

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 Canvas options

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Open the help topic with details about working with ERDs.
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Options to arrange the selected tables in the ERD:

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_property_settings
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Open the properties tab for the ERD.
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_zoom_out
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Zoom out to see more of the diagram, with smaller text.
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_zoom_in
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Zoom in to see a smaller area of the diagram, with larger text.
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PhixFlow automatically saves changes to tables and relationships.
Use this icon to save diagram layout changes to the ERD.

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_refresh
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Update the ERD to the last saved diagram layout. This clears any unsaved layout changes. 
Your ERD should automatically show an changes elsewhere in PhixFlow.  For example, if someone adds a new attribute to a table in your ERD, the attribute will appear on the list. If changes are not appearing, click this icon.

Table Pop-up Menu

To access more options in a pop-up menu, in the table header, click 

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Open the properties for this table to make changes.

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Remove the selected item(s) from the diagram.

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Tables may have relationships to other tables not represented on the current ERD. Use these options to add all related tables to your ERD so that you can see the full relationship set; see Show Relationships From Other ERDs , above.
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Delete the selected item(s) from the ERD and from everywhere it is used.
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Toggle the tables between expanded to show all attributes or collapsed to show only the table name, primary key and any foreign keys. This is useful if your table contains many attributes.
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Create a screen based on this table. todo-Fiona Link to where the wizard is explained

Attribute Pop-up Menu

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Make: set the current attribute to be a primary key. A table can have only one primary key.

Unset: unset this attribute so it is no longer the primary key for the table. 

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Make: set an attribute to be a foreign key.

Unset: unset this attribute so it is no longer a foreign key.

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Make: set an attribute to be the display name for the primary key

Unset: unset this attribute so it is no longer the display name for the primary key.

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Create a new attribute for the table. PhixFlow opens the properties where you can add a name and set the data type.
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 Attribute
Delete the attribute from the table. PhixFlow prompts you to confirm.


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Learn More

For links to all pages in this topic, see Entity Relationship Diagrams.

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