PowerDesigner provides default model checks to verify the validity of inheritances.
Check |
Description and Correction |
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Inheritance name and code uniqueness |
Inheritance names and codes must be unique in the model. Manual correction: Modify the duplicate name/code Automatic correction: Appends a number to the duplicate name/code. |
Existence of inheritance link |
An inheritance must have at least one inheritance link, from the inheritance to the parent entity. Manual correction: Define the inheritance link or delete the inheritance. Automatic correction: None. |
Incomplete inheritance with ungenerated ancestor |
[LDM only] If an inheritance is incomplete, the parent should be generated because you can lose information. Manual correction: Generate parent entity or define the inheritance as complete. Automatic correction: None. |