Properties

Parent Details

If this item is within or belongs to another, its parent name is shown here. See the Parent Details section on the Common Properties page for more details.

Basic Settings

Field	Description
Name	The name for the ERD.

Description

We recommend that you always enter a description to explain the purpose of this item.

Audit Tab

Audit Summary

See the Common Properties page, Audit Summary section.

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.

Option	Description
Create options
Table	Drag this icon onto the canvas to create a stream.
List options
Table	Click to open the repository filtered to list the streams available in your application.
Canvas options
Help	Open the help topic with details about working with ERDs.
Arrange Selected Items	Options to arrange the selected streams in the ERD: Align to Grid Align Objects to Left Align Objects to Right Align Objects to Top Align to base Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : No link could be created for '_distribute_horizontal'. Error rendering macro 'excerpt-include' : No link could be created for '_distribute_vertical'.
Properties	Open the properties tab for the ERD.
Zoom Out	Zoom out to see more of the diagram, with smaller text.
Zoom In	Zoom in to see a smaller area of the diagram, with larger text.
Apply	PhixFlow automatically saves changes to streams and relationships. Use this icon to save diagram layout changes to the ERD.
Refresh	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 stream in your ERD, the attribute will appear on the list. If changes are not appearing, click this icon.
Ungroup todo-Fiona - does not seem to be available	Select a grouped set of items and then click to ungroup them. Select several items then click to group them together.

Stream Pop-up Menu

To access more options in a pop-up menu, in the stream header, click More Options

Option	Description
Configure todo-Fiona - check Can this be Properties	Open the properties for this stream.
Remove	Remove the selected item(s) from the diagram.
Show many to one relations todo-Fiona - should be Show one-to-many relations	Streams may have relationships to other streams not represented on the current ERD. Use these options to add all related streams to your ERD so that you can see the full relationship set; see Show Relationships From Other ERDs , above.
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Show or Hide Attributes	Toggle the stream between expanded to show all attributes or collapsed to show only the stream name, primary key and any foreign keys. This is useful if your stream contains many attributes.
Delete	Delete the selected item(s) from the ERD and from everywhere it is used.

Attribute Pop-up Menu

Option	Description
Make/Unset Primary Key	Set the current attribute to be a primary key. Remember to unset any other primary key in the stream.
Make/Unset Foreign Key	Set the current attribute to be a foreign key.
Attributes	Create a new attribute for the stream. PhixFlow opens the properties where you can add a name and set the data type.
Delete attribute	Delete the attribute from the stream. PhixFlow prompts you to confirm.

ERD Reference Information