Migrating Deprecated Model Container Objects into a Project

PowerDesigner projects, a new way of organizing and representing the links between models, was introduced in version 15.0, and can represent your former ILM diagrams.

The Information Liquidity Model (ILM) is used to model data movement and replication. Some ILM objects in version 12.5 enabled you to show in a diagram containers for models and the generation and mapping links between them. This was inconsistent with the purpose of the ILM.

The following objects are no longer available in the Information Liquidity Model (ILM):

Conceptual data – container for conceptual data models.
Data access application – container for object-oriented models.
Data access link – relationship that documents the way data are mapped between model containers.
Generation link – relationship that documents generation dependencies between model containers.

In the following example, the ILM version 12.5 lets you show how a CDM, a PDM, and an OOM are linked by generation and data access links:

PowerDesigner projects enable you to:

Gather together and display in a diagram any types of PowerDesigner models and other files.
Display different types of link, such as shortcuts, references, traceability links and so on.
Benefit from the automatic update of links.
Check in and out all the models and other files contained within the project from the repository in one operation.

For detailed information about projects, see the Projects and Framework Matrices chapter of the Core Features Guide.

Creating a Project
Create a project to contain the models whose links you want to view.
Adding Models to a Project Diagram
Complement a project diagram by adding models whose links you want to view.
Rebuilding Dependency Links in a Project Diagram
Create dependency links (for example, generation, mappings, shortcuts, and so on) between models in a project diagram in the models themselves. You cannot manually create them. Dependency links are automatically generated in your project diagram when you add linked models to it.

Parent topic: Building Information Liquidity Diagrams