Notes Tab

The Notes tab in an object property sheet contains the sub-tabs Descriptions and Annotations, intended to hold additional information about the object.

• Descriptions - in general, includes important information that does not fit into the General tab. For example, a description of the Employee entity might read: This entity has one occurrence for each employee in our worldwide operations. This base should grow by 20 percent in 2002.

• Annotations - contains notes regarding the implementation of a model or the objects it contains. For example, an annotation of the Employee entity might read: Verify list of attributes with Director of Human Resources.

Both are editable directly in the tab with the internal PowerDesigner RTF editor, which includes the following tools:

Tool	Description
	[Shift+F11] Open Editor Menu - provides various file and formatting options. For more information, see Working with Textual Symbols.
	[Ctrl+E] Edit With - Opens your default RTF editor. Click the down arrow beside this tool to select another editor. For information, see Specifying Text Editors.

You can insert the content of an existing text or RTF file in the RTF editor to use it as a standard for your descriptions or annotations. This can be very helpful to standardize objects notes as you can have a description or annotation RTF file for each object type, and open it when needed.

1. Open the object's property sheet and click the Notes tab.
2. Click the Description or Annotation sub-tab, depending on the kind of note you want to add.
3. Click the Editor Menu tool and select Insert to open a standard Open dialog.
4. Browse to the file you want to insert and click Open.

   The content of the file is displayed in the RTF editor.