User Guide PUBLIC SAP PowerDesigner Document Version: 16.6.2 – 2017-01-05 Customizing and Extending PowerDesigner SAP PowerDesigner Documentation Collection Content 1 PowerDesigner Resource Files.................................................... 9 1.1 Opening Resource Files in the Editor.................................................10 1.2 Navigating and Searching in Resource Files............................................ 11 1.3 Editing Resource Files........................................................... 13 1.4 Saving Changes................................................................13 1.5 Sharing and Embedding Resource Files...............................................13 1.6 Creating and Copying Resource Files.................................................14 1.7 Specifying Directories to Search for Resource Files.......................................15 1.8 Comparing Resource Files........................................................ 15 1.9 Merging Resource Files.......................................................... 16 2 Extension Files................................................................18 2.1 Creating an Extension File.........................................................19 2.2 Attaching Extensions to a Model....................................................20 2.3 Exporting an Embedded Extension File for Sharing.......................................21 2.4 Extension File Properties......................................................... 21 2.5 Example: Adding a New Attribute from a Property Sheet...................................23 2.6 Example: Creating Robustness Diagram Extensions......................................24 Creating New Types of Objects with Stereotypes......................................25 Specifying Custom Symbols for Robustness Objects...................................27 Example: Creating Custom Checks on Instance Links.................................. 28 Example: Defining Templates to Extract Message Descriptions............................33 Example: Creating a Generated File for the Message Information.......................... 35 Example: Testing the Robustness Extensions........................................37 2.7 Metaclasses (Profile)............................................................39 Extended Objects, Sub-Objects, and Links (Profile)....................................42 2.8 Stereotypes (Profile)............................................................43 Creating New Metaclasses with Stereotypes.........................................46 2.9 Criteria (Profile)............................................................... 47 2.10 Extended Attributes (Profile)......................................................48 Calculated Attribute Scripts.................................................... 52 Creating an Extended Attribute Type..............................................54 Specifying Icons for Attribute Values..............................................55 Linking Objects Through Extended Attributes........................................57 Aggregating Attribute Values with Aggregated Metrics..................................57 2.11 Extended Collections and Compositions (Profile)........................................58 2.12 Calculated Collections (Profile).....................................................61 Customizing and Extending PowerDesigner 2 PUBLIC Content 2.13 Dependency Matrices (Profile).....................................................63 Specifying Advanced Dependencies...............................................66 2.14 Forms (Profile)................................................................67 Adding Extended Attributes and Other Controls to Your Form............................ 69 Example: Creating Common Form Controls......................................... 73 Example: Creating a Property Sheet Tab............................................75 Example: Including a Form in a Form.............................................. 78 Example: Opening a Dialog from a Property Sheet.....................................81 2.15 Custom Symbols (Profile)........................................................ 84 2.16 Custom Checks (Profile)......................................................... 86 Example: PDM Custom Check...................................................88 Example: PDM Autofix........................................................ 88 2.17 Event Handlers (Profile)..........................................................90 Example: Setting Default Property Values...........................................94 2.18 Methods (Profile).............................................................. 95 2.19 Menus (Profile)................................................................96 Example: Opening a Dialog Box from a Menu.........................................98 2.20 Templates (Profile)............................................................100 2.21 Generated Files (Profile).........................................................101 Example: JavaGenerated File and Templates........................................103 Generating Your Files in a Standard or Extended Generation.............................105 2.22 Transformations (Profile)........................................................107 Transformation Profiles (Profile)................................................ 109 Developing Transformation Scripts...............................................110 2.23 XML Imports (Profile)...........................................................111 XML Import Mappings........................................................112 Metamodel Mapping Properties................................................. 116 Metamodel Object Properties...................................................117 2.24 Object Generations (Profile)...................................................... 118 Model-to-Model Generation Mappings.............................................119 2.25 Chart Datasets (Profile).........................................................120 EA Example Charts..........................................................122 2.26 Global Script (Profile)...........................................................126 3 Object, Process, and XML Language Definition Files.................................. 127 3.1 Settings Category: Process Language...............................................129 3.2 Settings Category: Object Language.................................................131 3.3 Settings Category: XML Language..................................................132 3.4 Generation Category........................................................... 132 Example: Adding a Generation Option.............................................133 Example: Adding a Generation Command and Task...................................135 3.5 Profile Category (Definition Files).................................................. 138 Customizing and Extending PowerDesigner Content PUBLIC 3 4 DBMS Definition Files.........................................................139 4.1 Triggers Templates, Trigger Template Items, and Procedure Templates.......................140 4.2 Database Generation and Reverse Engineering.........................................140 Script Generation........................................................... 141 Script Reverse Engineering.................................................... 144 Live Database Generation..................................................... 145 Live Database Reverse Engineering.............................................. 146 Defining Generation and Reverse-Engineering of New Metaclasses........................153 Adding Scripts Before or After Generation and Reverse Engineering....................... 154 4.3 General Category (DBMS)........................................................154 4.4 Script/Sql Category (DBMS)......................................................155 Syntax Category (DBMS)......................................................155 Format Category (DBMS)..................................................... 156 File Category (DBMS)........................................................158 Keywords Category (DBMS)................................................... 159 4.5 Script/Objects Category (DBMS)...................................................161 Common Object Items........................................................163 Table Category (DBMS).......................................................167 Column Category (DBMS)..................................................... 171 Index Category (DBMS).......................................................178 Pkey Category (DBMS)....................................................... 181 Key Category (DBMS)........................................................182 Reference Category (DBMS)...................................................184 View Category (DBMS).......................................................187 Tablespace Category (DBMS).................................................. 189 Storage Category (DBMS).....................................................189 Database Category (DBMS)....................................................190 Domain Category (DBMS).....................................................191 Abstract Data Type Category (DBMS).............................................192 Abstract Data Type Attribute Category (DBMS)......................................194 User Category (DBMS).......................................................195