Entity Identifier Checks (CDM/LDM)

PowerDesigner provides default model checks to verify the validity of entity identifiers.

Check

Description and Correction

Entity identifier name and code uniqueness

Entity identifier names and codes must be unique in the namespace.

Manual correction: Modify the duplicate name/code

Automatic correction: Appends a number to the duplicate name/code.

Existence of entity attribute

At least one attribute must exist for an entity identifier.

Manual correction: Add an attribute to the entity identifier or delete the identifier.

Automatic correction: None.

Identifier inclusion

An identifier cannot include another one.

Manual correction: Delete the identifier that includes an existing identifier.

Automatic correction: None.