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April, 2015 Embarcadero Technologies 2 CONTENTS Introducing ER/Studio Data Architect ................................................................................. 24 Notice for Developer Edition Users ................................................................................. 24 Important Name Change Notice ..................................................................................... 24 Product Benefits by Audience .......................................................................................... 25 Overview ................................................................................................................................ 26 ER/Studio Family Products ............................................................................................ 26 Application Design ........................................................................................................ 27 Application Interface ............................................................................................................. 28 Data Model Explorer ............................................................................................................. 31 Data Model..................................................................................................................... 31 Data Dictionary .............................................................................................................. 32 Data Lineage .................................................................................................................. 33 Macros ............................................................................................................................ 34 Data Model Window ............................................................................................................. 35 Data Lineage Window ........................................................................................................... 36 Pop-up Windows ................................................................................................................... 37 Zoom Window ....................................................................................................................... 38 Overview Window ................................................................................................................. 39 Menus ..................................................................................................................................... 40 Application Menus ......................................................................................................... 40 Accessing Shortcut Menus ............................................................................................ 40 Toolbars ................................................................................................................................. 41 Moving Toolbars ............................................................................................................ 41 Undock a Toolbar .......................................................................................................... 41 Dock a Toolbar ............................................................................................................... 41 Displaying Toolbars ....................................................................................................... 41 Keyboard Commands ........................................................................................................... 42 Basic Functions .............................................................................................................. 42 Function Keys ................................................................................................................. 42 Shortcuts ......................................................................................................................... 42 Hot Keys ......................................................................................................................... 43 Full Undo Redo .............................................................................................................. 43 Status Bar ............................................................................................................................... 44 Configuring and Customizing .............................................................................................. 45 Customizing the Display of Diagrams and Objects............................................................ 46 Diagram tab ................................................................................................................... 47 Entity/Table tab ............................................................................................................. 47 Relationship tab ............................................................................................................. 48 View tab .......................................................................................................................... 48 Schema Objects tab ...................................................................................................... 49 Transformation tab ........................................................................................................ 49 Drawing Shapes tab ...................................................................................................... 49 Security Objects tab ...................................................................................................... 49 Embarcadero Technologies 3 Apply To tab ................................................................................................................... 49 Defining Model Options for the Selected Model ............................................................... 50 General Options tab ...................................................................................................... 50 Name Handling Options tab ........................................................................................ 51 Customizing Standard Model Features for New Models .................................................. 52 Application tab .............................................................................................................. 52 Logical tab ...................................................................................................................... 53 Physical tab ..................................................................................................................... 53 Name Handling tab ....................................................................................................... 54 In-Editor Naming Standards ......................................................................................... 55 Display tab ...................................................................................................................... 55 Directories tab................................................................................................................ 56 Tools tab ......................................................................................................................... 56 Diagram tab ................................................................................................................... 56 View tab .......................................................................................................................... 56 Schema Objects tab ...................................................................................................... 57 Object Types tab ........................................................................................................... 57 Object Names tab ......................................................................................................... 57 Automation Options tab ............................................................................................... 58 Data Dictionary tab ........................................................................................................ 58 Comments tab ............................................................................................................... 58 Where Used tab ............................................................................................................. 58 ERX File Import