Linking Models Manually

PowerDesigner automatically creates links when you use the following features:

In each case, shortcuts are silently created in the model.

• Linking a Requirement to a Design Object
  The following figure shows the links between the Requirements Model and other PowerDesigner models.
• Linking Objects with Extended Dependencies
  You can create extended dependencies toward objects in models of heterogeneous types.
• Linking Objects with Extended Collections
  The extended collection feature supports collections of objects from any type of model.
• Linking Objects with Calculated Collections
  Calculated collections allow you to create lists of associated objects with a user-defined semantic from any type of model.
• Linking Objects with Related Diagrams
  The related diagram feature is used to detail the behavior and define the implementation of objects into other diagrams. You can link an object to a diagram of another model type when you need to highlight a specific aspect of implementation.
• Linking Objects Through Data Import/export
  In a BPM, data are conceptual pieces of information that can be specified with more details in a Conceptual Data Model (CDM), in a Physical Data Model (PDM) or in the class diagram of an Object Oriented Model (OOM).
• Linking Objects Through Object Mappings
  You create mappings when you want to establish a correspondence between objects belonging to heterogeneous models and diagrams. Object mapping creates a structure for data movement and transformation: data comes from a data source and is loaded to another database or model.

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Created October 7, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com