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Archive for November, 2009

Undo History

November 18th, 2009

Today we would like to introduce you a big handy feature: Undo History.

You can now easily undo actions you’ve made to the ERD pane. Or ‘redo’ the cancelled ones when you change your mind.

The undo history window keeps the 100 most current actions. You can click on the Undo button once at a time, or click on the exact action you want to revert to.

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Lock or Unlock?

November 11th, 2009

Sometimes, the obvious isn’t quite so obvious.

Shall we let you resize freely the size (i.e. height and width) of each entity? That sounds quite flexible. But, you would have to resize your entity every time when you make changes to it.

Or shall we lock the size and let it grow automatically along side with its attributes? But some people might want to show only 5 of the 99 attributes in 1 of his 109 entities.

To give the best of the both world, we now support locking height and width down to a per-entity basis. By default, all entities will grow (or shrink) along with adding (or removing) attributes. If you want to lock the size of any particular entity, just click on the pin button on its upper-right-hand corner.

Problem solved!

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New Icon Set

November 7th, 2009

We have just replaced the menu buttons for drawing entities and relationships with graphical icons.

Why?

Because it looks nice; and to make room for upcoming new features!

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Color Box and Text Label

November 6th, 2009

When your model’s schema grows, very often you may want to group them visually so that your readers will find it easier to comprehend your design.

You can now do so and choose the color of the border and the background.

You can also put text into the box set its color and size to your likings!

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Keyboard Shortcuts

November 2nd, 2009

To help your speedy navigation around the ERD pane, we have introduced the following keyboard shortcuts:

  • the Del button: to delete selected objects in ERD pane
  • Ctrl-A: to select all entities
  • Ctrl-S: to save the current work
  • E: to add a new entity

And don’t forget that you can select multiple entities by holding the Ctrl key!

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Multiple Select

November 2nd, 2009

We now support selecting multiple entities by

  • holding the Control key on the keyboard
  • or, drag to select a region to select the entities within

You can then move and delete the selected entities in bulk.

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