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Rearranging ERDs

Moving Tables

To move tables around in the ERD, click on the header and drag the table. The toolbar has 

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options  options that you can use to line up or distribute selected tables.

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

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:

  1. Click on a relationship line to add an angle point, which appears as a blue dot
  2. Move the mouse pointer over the blue dot. It changes to a four-way arrow to indicate you can drag.
  3. Drag the point to the position you require. 

Removing Bends

To remove an unwanted angle, right-click the blue dot and select Remove Point.