Generating PowerBuilder Extended Attributes

You can update the PowerBuilder extended attribute system tables by performing a PowerBuilder extended attribute generation.

During generation, certain extended attributes may contain variables in their values, which are translated during generation, for example to access object properties. The following object properties are translated during generation:

Object	Property
Table	Comment
Column	Comment Label Header Initial value

Object

Property

Table

Comment

Column

Comment

Label

Header

Initial value

This automated process uses the PowerDesigner generation template language (see the Customizing Generation with GTL chapter in Customizing and Extending PowerDesigner).

Select Tools > PowerBuilder > Generate Extended Attributes to open the PowerBuilder Extended Attributes Generation dialog box.
Click the Connect to a Data Source tool to open the Connect to a Data Source window.
Select a machine or file data source and click Connect.

The selected data source is displayed in the Data Source box in the upper part of the PowerBuilder Extended Attributes Generation dialog box.
Select the tables you want to generate.
Click OK to start generation.

The Output window displays the generation messages.