Getting Started with Linking and Synching

The PowerDesigner Enterprise Modeling environment allow you to create and exploit complex interdependencies between your models.

The richness of the PowerDesigner modeling environment enables you to model interconnected systems and view them in many different ways.


PD Chart Linking and Synching

A single data item such as a product name can be implicated in multiple systems, which are modeled in a number of interdependent models. It may also be represented at various levels of abstraction in conceptual, logical, and physical data models, or in different contexts such as object-oriented, XML, business process, and enterprise architecture models.

Instead of defining this same object and all its accompanying metadata multiple times, PowerDesigner allows you to generate these instances or in other ways link them together, and provides powerful tools for tracking and analyzing the dependencies between them.

Note: In order to obtain a complete view of the dependencies between your models, they must either all be open in your workspace or stored in the repository and checked out with the Check out dependencies option selected. When working with multiple connected models, we recommend that you group your models together into a project (see Projects and Frameworks).
Parent topic: Linking and Synchronizing Models